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Elizabeth Blackburn

1948 - Today

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Elizabeth Helen Blackburn (born 26 November 1948) is an Australian-American Nobel laureate who is the former president of the Salk Institute for Biological Studies. In 1984, Blackburn co-discovered telomerase, the enzyme that replenishes the telomere, with Carol W. Greider. For this work, she was awarded the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, sharing it with Carol W. Greider and Jack W. Szostak, becoming the first Australian woman Nobel laureate. She also worked in medical ethics, and was controversially dismissed from the Bush administration's President's Council on Bioethics. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Elizabeth Blackburn is the 73rd most popular biologist (up from 81st in 2019), the 11th most popular biography from Australia (up from 18th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Australian Biologist. Learn more about Elizabeth Blackburn's academic impact at Rankless.

Elizabeth Blackburn is most famous for her research on telomeres, the caps at the end of chromosomes. She was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2009 for her work on telomeres.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Elizabeth Blackburn ranks 73 out of 1,097. Before her are Hugo Theorell, Dian Fossey, George Shaw, Adelbert von Chamisso, Günter Blobel, and Antoine Laurent de Jussieu. After her are Georg Forster, Alexander Oparin, Michael Houghton, Max Theiler, Richard Owen, and Ralph M. Steinman.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1948, Elizabeth Blackburn ranks 40. Before her are Antonín Panenka, Sven-Göran Eriksson, Sauli Niinistö, Keke Rosberg, Steven Tyler, and Yoshihide Suga. After her are Alice Cooper, Donna Summer, Robert Plant, John Carpenter, Mikhail Baryshnikov, and Kathy Bates.

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In Australia

Among people born in Australia, Elizabeth Blackburn ranks 11 out of 1,143. Before her are Peter C. Doherty (1940), George Miller (1945), Geoffrey Rush (1951), Tamam Shud case (1903), Sia (1975), and John Cornforth (1917). After her are Cate Blanchett (1969), Rod Laver (1938), Rupert Murdoch (1931), Truganini (1812), George Lazenby (1939), and Jack Brabham (1926).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Australia

Among biologists born in Australia, Elizabeth Blackburn ranks 2. Before her are Macfarlane Burnet (1899). After her are David Bruce (1855), Robert May, Baron May of Oxford (1936), David A. Sinclair (1969), Frank Fenner (1914), and Suzanne Cory (1942).

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