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The
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2009 |
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jointly to Elizabeth H. Blackburn, University of California,
San Francisco, CA, USA, Carol W. Greider, Johns Hopkins
University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
and Jack W. Szostak, Harvard Medical School; Massachusetts
General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA; Howard Hughes Medical Institute
"for the discovery of how chromosomes are protected
by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase".
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Nobel Prize in Physics 2009 |
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one half to Charles K. Kao, Standard Telecommunication
Laboratories, Harlow, United Kingdom - Chinese University
of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China"for groundbreaking
achievements concerning the transmission of light in fibers
for optical communication" and the other half jointly
to Willard S. Boyle, Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill,
NJ, USA, and George E. Smith, Bell Laboratories, Murray
Hill, NJ, USA, Kyoto University, Japan, "for the invention
of an imaging semiconductor circuit – the CCD sensor".
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Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2009 |
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>jointly
to Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, MRC Laboratory of Molecular
Biology, Cambridge, United Kingdom, Thomas A. Steitz,
Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA - Howard Hughes Medical
Institute and Ada E. Yonath, Weizmann Institute of
Science, Rehovot, Israel, "for studies of the structure
and function of the ribosome".
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