123 years ago today, June 16, 1902 (May 11, 1902 in the lunar calendar), American scientist Barbara McClintock was born. McClintock and her lifelong research object, American scientist Barbara McClintock, on June 16, 1902, at sunrise in Harvard City, USA. She won the Nobel Prize in Biology in 1983 for proposing the "mobile control gene theory." She was the first female scientist in the world to win such a prize based on her own research results.