The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2009 has been awarded “for the discovery of how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase”. :bravo:
http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/2009/
The prize is shared equally by three recipients. Notably, two of the recipients are women. Only 37 women have received Nobel Prizes since they were first handed out in 1901. The 10 women who have won the Physiology/Medicine prize are:
Gerty Cori, 1947
Rosalyn Yalow, 1977
Barbara McClintock, 1983
Rita Levi-Montalcini, 1986
Gertrude B. Elion, 1988
Christiane Nuesslein-Volhard, 1995
Linda B. Buck, 2004
Francoise Barre-Sinoussi, 2008
Carol W. Greider, 2009
Elizabeth H. Blackburn, 2009
http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/2009/
The prize is shared equally by three recipients. Notably, two of the recipients are women. Only 37 women have received Nobel Prizes since they were first handed out in 1901. The 10 women who have won the Physiology/Medicine prize are:
Gerty Cori, 1947
Rosalyn Yalow, 1977
Barbara McClintock, 1983
Rita Levi-Montalcini, 1986
Gertrude B. Elion, 1988
Christiane Nuesslein-Volhard, 1995
Linda B. Buck, 2004
Francoise Barre-Sinoussi, 2008
Carol W. Greider, 2009
Elizabeth H. Blackburn, 2009