Special Women to Have Won the Nobel Prize with Their Remarkable Contributions

Carol Widney Greider

Carol Widney Greider is a popular American molecular biologist and a distinguished professor at the University of California. She’s recognized for her work in studying enzyme structures and telomeres that protect the chromosomes. In 1984, the star came up with the enzyme telomerase, which spearheaded her receiving many awards.

The molecular biologists won the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 2009 together with Jack W. Szostak and Blackburn. They discovered that telomeres are protected by telomerase shortening. The Nobel laureate has received many other awards, including the Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prizes and the Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize from Columbia University.

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