Jack Szostak
Jack Szostak
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2009
Nobel co-recipients: Elizabeth H. Blackburn, Carol W. Greider
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Name: Jack W. Szostak
Birth: 9 November 1952, London, United Kingdom
Residence: Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Award: “for the discovery of how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase.”
Portion of Cash: 1/3
Award: “for the discovery of how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase.”
Nobel Prize Cash & Philanthropy
Szostak Jack planned to use the Noble Prize money to pay for his children’s college education.