Elizabeth H. Blackburn

Nobel Lecture

Telomeres and Telomerase: The Means to the End

Elizabeth H. Blackburn delivered her Nobel Lecture on 7 December 2009 at Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm. She was introduced by Professor Thomas Perlmann, member of the Nobel Assembly and associate member of the Nobel Committee for Physiology or Medicine.

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Elizabeth H. Blackburn delivered her Nobel Lecture on 7 December 2009 at Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm. She was introduced by Professor Thomas Perlmann, member of the Nobel Assembly and associate member of the Nobel Committee for Physiology or Medicine.

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From Les Prix Nobel. The Nobel Prizes 2009, Editor Karl Grandin, [Nobel Foundation], Stockholm, 2010

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