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Carol Greider
Carol Greider · Keith Weller, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
Person

Carol Greider

b. 1961

American molecular biologist

Born
15 Apr 1961 · San Diego

Life timeline

Their life from birth to death. On the timeline, world events of the time are shown faintly.

Showing 75 years
  1. 15 Apr 1961BornBorn in San Diego
  2. 1998AwardCanada Gairdner International Award
  3. 1998AwardRosenstiel Award
  4. 2003AwardFellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
  5. 2003AwardRichard Lounsbery Award
  6. 2006AwardAlbert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research
  7. 2007AwardDickson Prize in Medicine
  8. 2007AwardLouisa Gross Horwitz Prize
  9. 2008AwardPearl Meister Greengard Prize
  10. 2009AwardClarivate Citation Laureates
  11. 2009AwardNobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
  12. 2009AwardPaul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize
  13. 2011AwardMaryland Women's Hall of Fame

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Meanwhile in the world

Major world events during their lifetime (1961 – today).

  1. 19621962 FIFA World Cup
  2. 1962Cuban Missile Crisis
  3. 19661966 FIFA World Cup
  4. 1966 – 1976Cultural Revolution
  5. 1968Prague Spring
  6. 1969Apollo 11 Moon landing
  7. 19721972 Summer Olympics
  8. 19741974 FIFA World Cup
  9. 19781978 FIFA World Cup
  10. 1978 – 1979Iranian Revolution
  11. 1979 – 1989Soviet–Afghan War
  12. 1980 – 1988Iran–Iraq War
  13. 19841984 Summer Olympics
  14. 1985Schengen Agreement
  15. 19891989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre
  16. 1989Fall of the Berlin Wall
  17. 19901990 FIFA World Cup
  18. 1991Dissolution of the Soviet Union
  19. 19941994 FIFA World Cup
  20. 1994 – 1996First Chechen War
  21. 19981998 FIFA World Cup
  22. 2001 – 2021War in Afghanistan
  23. 2003 – 2011Iraq War
  24. 20042004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami
  25. 20062006 FIFA World Cup
  26. 20082008 Summer Olympics
  27. 2008Russo-Georgian War
  28. 20102010 Haiti earthquake
  29. 2010 – 2012Arab Spring
  30. 20112011 Norway attacks
  31. 2011Libyan civil war
  32. 2011 – 2024Syrian civil war
  33. 20122012 Summer Olympics
  34. 20142014 FIFA World Cup
  35. 2014Russo-Ukrainian war
  36. 2015Paris Agreement
  37. 20182018 FIFA World Cup
  38. 2020COVID-19 pandemic
  39. 20212020 Summer Olympics
  40. 2022Russo-Ukrainian war

Biography

Carolyn Widney Greider (born April 15, 1961) is an American molecular biologist and Nobel laureate. She is a Distinguished Professor of Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Greider discovered the enzyme telomerase in 1984, while she was a graduate student of Elizabeth Blackburn at the University of California, Berkeley. Greider pioneered research on the structure of telomeres, the ends of the chromosomes. She was awarded the 2009 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, along with Blackburn and Jack W. Szostak, for their discovery that telomeres are protected from progressive shortening by the enzyme telomerase.

Text from the Wikipedia article Carol W. Greider, CC BY-SA 4.0

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