Elizabeth H. Blackburn
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2009
“for the discovery of how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase”
Elizabeth H. Blackburn is an Australian-American molecular biologist affiliated with the University of California. She won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2009 for the discovery of how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase.
- Field
- Biology · Molecular Biology
- Lifespan
- 1948–