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Elizabeth Blackburn

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Also known as Blackburn E, E Blackburn, Blackburn, E. H. Blackburn, Blackburn EH, E.H. Blackburn, E. Blackburn, Blackburn E. H.

Australian-American biological researcher

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Elizabeth H. Blackburn was born in 1948. She is affiliated with the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) and The Salk Institute for Biological Studies. Her academic connections include an Erdős number of 6.

Blackburn has received one Nobel Prize. Her work is recognized in several collections, including the Royal Society, Nobel Laureates, Nobel Medicine, American Academy Arts Sciences, and Time 100 collections.

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  • Stress: Portrait of a Killer — Herself2008

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Nobel Prize

  • The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine2009

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

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
human
Given name
Helen
Family name
Blackburn
Gender
female
Citizenship
United States
Place of birth
Hobart
Occupation
university teacher
Employer
Salk Institute for Biological Studies
Languages spoken
English language
Academic degree
Doctor of Philosophy
Doctoral advisor
Frederick Sanger
Student of
Frederick Sanger
Doctoral student
Carol Greider
Field of work
cytogenetics
Official website
blackburnlab.ucsf.edu
Image
Elizabeth H. Blackburn.jpg
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Elizabeth Blackburn
member of
Royal Society
date of birth
1948-11-26
Erdős number
6
affiliation
University of California, San Francisco
student
Carol Greider
writing language
English language
affiliation string
The Salk Institute for Biological Studies
interested in
biology
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Encyclopedic overview

Elizabeth Helen Blackburn (born 26 November 1948) is an Australian–American Nobel laureate who is the former president of the Salk Institute for Biological Studies. In 1984, Blackburn co-discovered telomerase, the enzyme that replenishes the telomere, with Carol W. Greider. For this work, she was awarded the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, sharing it with Carol W. Greider and Jack W. Szostak, becoming the first Australian woman Nobel laureate.

She also worked in medical ethics, and was controversially dismissed from the Bush administration's President's Council on Bioethics. 170 scientists signed an open letter to the president in her support, maintaining that she was fired because of political opposition to her advice.

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