Elizabeth Blackburn
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Elizabeth Helen Blackburn is an Australian–American Nobel laureate who is the former president of the Salk Institute for Biological Studies. In 1984, Blackburn co-discovered telomerase, the enzyme tha
Elizabeth Blackburn in 2024
Elizabeth Blackburn (Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology 2009) in Stockholm, June 2016
Jack W. Szostak
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Jack William Szostak is a Canadian American biologist of Polish British descent, Nobel Prize laureate, university professor at the University of Chicago, former professor of genetics at Harvard Medica
Elizabeth Blackburn
…telomere, with Carol W. Greider. For this work, she was awarded the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, sharing it with Carol W. Greider and Jack W. Szostak, becoming the first Australian woman Nobel laureate. She also worked in medical ethics, and was controversially dismissed from the Bush administration's…
Szostak at his home in 2025