Elizabeth Blackburn date of birth:
November 26, 1948
How old is Elizabeth Blackburn?
76
Where was Elizabeth Blackburn born?
Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
Elizabeth Blackburn body shape:
Average
What color are Elizabeth Blackburn's eyes?
Blue
What color is Elizabeth Blackburn's hair?
Blonde
What is Elizabeth Blackburn's ethnicity?
White
What is Elizabeth Blackburn nationality?
American
What is Elizabeth Blackburn's occupation?
Biologist
Short Biography
Elizabeth Helen Blackburn, AC, FRS, FAA, FRSN (born 26 November 1948) is an Australian-American biological researcher at the University of California, San Francisco, who studies the telomere, a structure at the end of chromosomes that protects the chromosome. Blackburn co-discovered telomerase, the enzyme that replenishes the telomere. 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 only Tasmanian-born Nobel laureate. She also worked in medical ethics, and was controversially dismissed from the Bush Administration's President's Council on Bioethics.