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Nobel Prize Winners: Barbara Mcclintock
Barbara

Name origin: Latin

Name meaning: Foreign, strange

 
Mcclintock

Name origin: Scottish and northern Irish

Name meaning: Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Gille Fhionndaig (Scottish), Mac Giolla Fhionntóg (Irish) ‘son of the servant of (Saint) Finndag’, a personal name derived from a pet form of fionn ‘white’. According to Woulfe, the Scottish family settled in Donegal in the late 16th century.

 
 
 
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