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	Carol W. Greider	Jack W. Szostak
1/3 of the prize	1/3 of the prize	1/3 of the prize
USA	USA	USA
University of California San Francisco, CA, USA	Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Baltimore, MD, USA	Harvard Medical School; Massachusetts General Hospital Boston, MA, USA; Howard Hughes Medical Institute
b. 1948 (in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia)	b. 1961	b. 1952 (in London, United Kingdom)