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Garrison-Morton-Norman History of Medicine

GRIEDER, Carolyn Widney (1961 – )

1961 –

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1985 CE

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Identification of a specific telomere terminal transferase activity in Tetrahymena extracts.

BLACKBURN, Elizabeth Helen (1948 – )
BLACKBURN, Elizabeth Helen (1948 – ) GRIEDER, Carolyn Widney (1961 – )

Blackburn and Grieder discovered telomerase in the ciliate Tetrahymena. In 2009 Blackburn and Grieder shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Jack W. Szostak "for the discovery of how chromosomes are pro…