The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2009

Elizabeth H. Blackburn

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Prize share: 1/3

Carol W. Greider

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Prize share: 1/3

Jack W. Szostak

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Prize share: 1/3

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."

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