Jack William Szostak is a Canadian American biologist, a university professor at the University of Chicago and a former professor of genetics at Harvard Medical School. He was awarded the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, along with Elizabeth Blackburn and Carol W. Greider, for the discovery of how chromosomes are protected by telomeres.
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Shared the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine; Greider's own lead credits her direct 1984 co-discovery of telomerase to Blackburn alone (see the Blackburn-Greider edge above) and names Szostak only alongside her as a fellow laureate, so this edge is recorded as shared-prize-only, not a working collaboration between Greider and Szostak specifically.
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Shared the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine; Blackburn's own lead credits only Greider as her direct co-discoverer of telomerase (edge 10 above) and names Szostak solely as a co-laureate, so this edge is recorded as shared-prize-only, distinct from the Blackburn-Greider working partnership.
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Jack William Szostak (born November 9, 1952) is a Canadian American biologist of Polish British descent, Nobel Prize laureate, university professor at the University of Chicago, former professor of genetics at Harvard Medical School, and Alexander Rich Distinguished Investigator at Massachusetts
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He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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He was awarded the 2009 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, along with Elizabeth Blackburn and Carol W. Greider, for the discovery of how chromosomes are protected by telomeres.
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she was awarded the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, sharing it with Carol W. Greider and Jack W. Szostak
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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.
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