Nobel Prize for Medicine 2009
On 31 October, 2009 Keep in Mind | 2009 Comments Off on Nobel Prize for Medicine 2009 No tagsOn the 5th of October last the names of this year’s Nobel Prize for Medicine were announced: Elizabeth H. Blackburn, a researcher at the University of California San Francisco, Carol W. Greider practicing at Johns Hopkins Medicine, and Jack W. Szostak belonging to the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. These researchers will share the Nobel Prize for studies on the protection of chromosomes.
The prize, worth ten million Swedish Crowns (984.6 thousand Euros), aims at rewarding “the discovery of how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and by the enzyme telomerase”, the noble committee revealed.
Listen to the interviews given by the Nobel laureates here, immediately after the announcement of the awarding of the Nobel Prize for Medicine 2009:
Elizabeth H. Blackburn
http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/2009/blackburn-interview.html
Carol W. Greider
http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/2009/greider-interview.html
Jack W. Szostak
http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/2009/szostak-interview.html
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