 She was elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society ( ForMemRS ) in 1989 . McClintock received the Benjamin Franklin Medal for Distinguished Achievement in the Sciences of the American Philosophical Society in 1993 . She was awarded 14 Honorary Doctor of Science degrees and an Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters . In 1986 she was inducted into the National Women 's Hall of Fame . During her final years , McClintock led a more public life , especially after Evelyn Fox Keller 's 1983 biography of her , A Feeling for the Organism , brought McClintock 's story to the public . She remained a regular presence in the Cold Spring Harbor community , and gave talks on mobile genetic elements and the history of genetics research for the benefit of junior scientists . An anthology of her 43 publications The Discovery and Characterization of <unk> Elements : The Collected Papers of Barbara McClintock was published in 1987 . 
