Elizabeth Helen Blackburn is an Australian-American biological researcher known for her pioneering work on telomeres and telomerase. She was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2009 for her discovery of telomeres and their role in the ageing process. Watch this video to know more about her! #Unacademy #Education | Unacademy

Happy birthday Elizabeth Blackburn! Born 69 years ago in Tasmania, Australia, Blackburn was awarded the Medicine Prize in 2009. It was the first time in Nobel Prize history that a scientific prize was awarded to two women. The work by the 2009 Medicine Laureates, Elizabeth Blackburn, Carol Greider and Jack Szostak, led to knowledge on how the chromosomes can be copied in a complete way during cell divisions and how they are protected against degradation. They have shown that the solution is to b

How do you stay creative? Medicine laureate Elizabeth Blackburn tells us how she copes and recommends that we all try out a "Swedish fika". Watch the full conversation here: https://bit.ly/3osp5UZ #CareerAdvice #NobelPrize | Nobel Prize