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Elizabeth Blackburn
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Person

Elizabeth Blackburn

b. 1948

Australian-American biological researcher

Born
26 Nov 1948 · Hobart
Part ofAustralia1808 – today

Life timeline

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

Showing 90 years
  1. 26 Nov 1948BornBorn in Hobart
  2. 1990AwardNAS Award in Molecular Biology
  3. 1998AwardCanada Gairdner International Award
  4. 1998AwardGrand Prix Charles-Leopold Mayer
  5. 1998AwardRosenstiel Award
  6. 1999AwardHarvey Prize
  7. 1999AwardKeio Medical Science Prize
  8. 1999AwardKeith R. Porter Lecture
  9. 2000AwardAACR-G.H.A. Clowes Award for Outstanding Basic Cancer Research
  10. 2000AwardDickson Prize in Medicine
  11. 2001AwardAlfred P. Sloan, Jr. Prize
  12. 2001AwardE. B. Wilson Medal
  13. 2003AwardBristol-Myers Squibb Award for Distinguished Achievement in Cancer Research
  14. 2010 – 2011RolePresident of the American Association for Cancer Research

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Meanwhile in the world

Major world events during their lifetime (1948 – today).

  1. 19501950 FIFA World Cup
  2. 1950 – 1953Korean War
  3. 1953 – 1959Cuban Revolution
  4. 19541954 FIFA World Cup
  5. 1955 – 1975Vietnam War
  6. 1956Hungarian Revolution of 1956
  7. 1956Suez Crisis
  8. 19581958 FIFA World Cup
  9. 1959Antarctic Treaty System
  10. 19621962 FIFA World Cup
  11. 1962Cuban Missile Crisis
  12. 19661966 FIFA World Cup
  13. 1966 – 1976Cultural Revolution
  14. 1968Prague Spring
  15. 1969Apollo 11 Moon landing
  16. 19721972 Summer Olympics
  17. 19741974 FIFA World Cup
  18. 19781978 FIFA World Cup
  19. 1978 – 1979Iranian Revolution
  20. 1979 – 1989Soviet–Afghan War
  21. 1980 – 1988Iran–Iraq War
  22. 19841984 Summer Olympics
  23. 1985Schengen Agreement
  24. 19891989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre
  25. 1989Fall of the Berlin Wall
  26. 19901990 FIFA World Cup
  27. 1991Dissolution of the Soviet Union
  28. 19941994 FIFA World Cup
  29. 1994 – 1996First Chechen War
  30. 19981998 FIFA World Cup
  31. 2001 – 2021War in Afghanistan
  32. 2003 – 2011Iraq War
  33. 20042004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami
  34. 20062006 FIFA World Cup
  35. 20082008 Summer Olympics
  36. 2008Russo-Georgian War
  37. 20102010 Haiti earthquake
  38. 2010 – 2012Arab Spring
  39. 20112011 Norway attacks
  40. 2011Libyan civil war

Biography

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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