Randolph found the situation intolerable and she soon departed for the University of Missouri and then the Cold Spring Harbor Lab in New York, where she remained for the rest of her life.  
She first gained attention by solving a problem that her Cornell advisor, Lowell Randolph, had been working on for most of his career.  Randolph found the situation intolerable and she soon departed for the University of Missouri and then the Cold Spring Harbor Lab in New York, where she remained for the rest of her life.  Despite James Watson's declaration that she was one of the three most important people in genetics, her work was not generally understood in its time, and she won her Nobel Prize more than 30 years after publishing her discovery.  For 10 points--name this scientist whose carefully observations of coloration in maize kernels were explained by her discovery of genetic crossover.
She first gained attention by solving a problem that her Cornell advisor, Lowell Randolph, had been working on for most of his career.  
Barbara McClintock