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Groundbreaking research in the applied and basic life sciences
is not new at Cornell.
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The university can trace its pioneering work in genetics
and biochemistry way back to Nobel Prize winners Barbara
McClintock, who broke new ground in corn genetics in the 1920s,
and Robert Holley, who discovered of the structure of transfer
RNA in the 1960s.
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Cornell medical scientists have developed critical vaccines
and diagnostic tests like the pap smear.
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Wilson Greatbatch (BEE '50) invented the cardiac pacemaker.
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Milestones at Cornell.
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