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http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/2009/

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2009

"for the discovery of how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase"

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Elizabeth H. Blackburn

1/3 of the prize

USA

University of California

San Francisco, CA, USA

b. 1948

(in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia)

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Carol W. Greider

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Jack W. Szostak

1/3 of the prize

USA

Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Baltimore, MD, USA

b. 1961

1/3 of the prize

USA

Harvard Medical School; Massachusetts General Hospital

Boston, MA, USA; Howard Hughes Medical Institute

b. 1952

(in London, United Kingdom)

Titles, data and places given above refer to the time of the award.