Jack W. Szostak was awarded Nobel Prize 2009 in Physiology/Medicine "for the discovery of how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase."
Nationality United States
Institution Harvard Medical School/Massachusetts General Hospital/Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Award 2009
Discipline Physiology/Medicine
Co-recipients Elizabeth H. Blackburn
MotivationAwarded with Nobel Prize 2009 in Physiology/Medicine "for the discovery of how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase."
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