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    Elizabeth Helen Blackburn, AC FRS FAA FRSN (born 26 November 1948) is an Australian-American Nobel laureate who is the former president of the Salk Institute...
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    the enzyme telomerase in 1984, while she was a graduate student of Elizabeth Blackburn at the University of California, Berkeley. Greider pioneered research...
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  • politician Earl Blackburn (1892-1966), American baseball catcher Edmond Spencer Blackburn (1868–1912), American politician Elizabeth Blackburn (b. 1948), Australian-American...
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    Stephen Hawking (1974), David Attenborough (1983), Tim Hunt (1991), Elizabeth Blackburn (1992), Raghunath Mashelkar (1998), Tim Berners-Lee (2001), Venki...
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    Blackburn (/ˈblækbərn/ ) is an industrial town and the administrative centre of the Blackburn with Darwen borough in Lancashire, England. The town is...
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    awarded the 2009 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, along with Elizabeth Blackburn and Carol W. Greider, for the discovery of how chromosomes are protected...
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    end replication problem and therefore do not age. In 1975–1977, Elizabeth Blackburn, working as a postdoctoral fellow at Yale University with Joseph...
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    Virus (HIV), the cause of Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS). Elizabeth Blackburn, along with Carol W. Greider and Jack W. Szostak, was awarded the...
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    Barbadian Governor-General Elliott Belgrave, Nobel Prize winner Elizabeth Blackburn, Nobel Prize winner Eric Maskin, Solicitor-General of the United...
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  • laureates starting in 2008 were subsequently awarded with a Nobel Prize: Elizabeth Blackburn and Carol W. Greider in Physiology or Medicine (2009), Emmanuelle...
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