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Also Known As Elizabeth Helen Blackburn
Born November 26, 1948 (age 75) • Hobart • Australia • (Birthday in 4 days)
Awards And Honors Nobel Prize (2009)
Subjects Of Study DNA • Tetrahymena • aging • telomerase • telomere

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English-born American biochemist and geneticist Jack W. Szostak.
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James Watson
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Phillip A. Sharp, 1993.
Phillip A. Sharp
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Randy W. Schekman
American biochemist and cell biologist
Günter Blobel
German-American scientist
Rothman, James E.
James E. Rothman
American biochemist and cell biologist
Selman Abraham Waksman, 1968.
Selman Abraham Waksman
American biochemist
Arthur Kornberg.
Arthur Kornberg
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Severo Ochoa, 1959.
Severo Ochoa
Spanish-American biochemist
A.D. Hershey
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Daniel Nathans
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Har Gobind Khorana
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Oliver Smithies
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Stanley Cohen
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Tonegawa Susumu
Japanese biologist
Brenner, Sydney
Sydney Brenner
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Swiss microbiologist
Roberts, Richard J.
Richard J. Roberts
British molecular biologist
Kossel, Albrecht
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