The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2009

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2009

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)

Titles, data and places given above refer to the time of the award.

"for the discovery of how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase"