Jack W. Szostak

Jack W. Szostak, Nobel Laureate

Born: 1952-11-09 in London, United Kingdom

Gender: male

Field: American biologist

Biography

Jack William Szostak 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 General Hospital, Boston.

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Nobel Prize Details

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2009

Awarded on: 2009-10-05

"for the discovery of how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase"

Affiliations:

  • Harvard Medical School – Boston, MA, USA
  • Massachusetts General Hospital – Boston, MA, USA
  • Howard Hughes Medical Institute – USA
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