# Barbara McClintock (1902-1992)
## Identity
- **Name:** Barbara McClintock
- **Sex:** Female
- **Era:** Modern
- **Domain:** Cytogenetics, maize genetics, transposable elements
- **Ancestry:** American, Northern European descent
## Trait Scores
analytical_reasoning: 0.95
creativity: 0.85
risk_tolerance: 0.60
empathy: 0.50
persistence: 0.98
verbal_fluency: 0.55
spatial_reasoning: 0.95
introversion: 0.90
conscientiousness: 0.95
openness_to_experience: 0.75
emotional_resilience: 0.90
mathematical_intuition: 0.70
leadership_drive: 0.30
aesthetic_sensitivity: 0.70
pattern_recognition: 0.98
immune_robustness: 0.60
metabolic_efficiency: 0.55
longevity_predisposition: 0.70
stress_response: 0.80
circadian_regulation: 0.55
sensory_acuity: 0.90
hypoxia_tolerance: 0.35
neuroplasticity: 0.85
memory_consolidation: 0.90
social_dominance: 0.25
obsessive_focus: 0.95
## Summary
Saw what no one else could see in maize chromosomes. Discovered transposable elements decades before anyone believed her. Worked alone in her cornfield at Cold Spring Harbor, unbothered by scepticism. Said she had "a feeling for the organism." Nobel Prize at 81, vindicated by molecular biology catching up to her observations.