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| complete name: |
Elizabeth Helen Blackburn |
| nobel prize: |
medicine |
| award year: |
2009 |
| together with: |
Carol Greider |
| together with: |
Jack Szostak |
| prize share: |
Prize share: 1/3 |
| rational: |
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2009 was awarded jointly to Elizabeth H. Blackburn, Carol W. Greider and Jack W. Szostak "for the discovery of how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase." |
| biography: |
Biography |
| laureate facts: |
Facts |
| laureate lecture: |
Lecture |
| birth name: |
Elizabeth Helen Blackburn |
| given name: |
Elizabeth |
| family name: |
Blackburn |
| occupation: |
physician |
| occupation: |
biologist |
| occupation: |
molecular biologist |
| field of work: |
cytogenetics |
| work location: |
Yale University, Woodbridge Hall, New Haven, CT, 06520, United States of America |
| description: |
Elizabeth Helen Blackburn is an Australian-American Nobel laureate who is currently the President of the Salk Institute for Biological Studies. Previously she was a biological researcher at the University of California, San Francisco, who studied the telomere, a structure at the end of chromosomes that protects the chromosome. Blackburn co-discovered telomerase, the enzyme that replenishes the telomere. 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 only Tasmanian-born Nobel laureate. She also worked in medical ethics, and was controversially dismissed from the Bush Administration's President's Council on Bioethics. |
| image copyright: |
© The Nobel Foundation. Photo: U. Montan |
| image citation: |
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2009. NobelPrize.org. Nobel Media AB 2018. <https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/2009/summary/> |
| date birth: |
1948 |
| usual name: |
Elizabeth Blackburn |
