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Molecular biologist; Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine, 2009
Australia / United States · b. 1948
Molecular biologist, born in Tasmania, who discovered the enzyme telomerase with Carol Greider. Shared the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Greider and Jack Szostak. She was a graduate student with Frederick Sanger in Cambridge and later worked at the University of California, San Francisco.
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Yes, and, I'll turn your comment around and say it's fairly close to the biological ratio of men and women. It's all the other fields that are aberrant. … This is the normal field, right? Because it is a much more even distribution between men and women, absolutely.
Recorded Adam Smith, Telephone interview recorded immediately after the prize announcement, Nobel Prize Outreach, 5 October 2009 source
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