“for the discovery of how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase”
Jack W. Szostak is a geneticist. He shared the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery of how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase. He was affiliated with Harvard Medical School when awarded.
- Field
- Biology · Genetics
- Lifespan
- 1952–