Huntington, New York

Huntington is a town on the North Shore of Long Island in Suffolk County, New York, United States, founded in 1653. Its hamlets include Cold Spring Harbor, and the birthplace of the poet Walt Whitman is preserved there as a state historic site. The geneticist Barbara McClintock, who joined the staff of the nearby Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in the early 1940s and received the 1983 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering mobile genetic elements, died in Huntington on 2 September 1992.

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