The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2009
| Elizabeth H. Blackburn | Carol W. Greider | Jack W. Szostak |
| 1/3 of the prize | 1/3 of the prize | 1/3 of the prize |
| USA | USA | USA |
| University of California San Francisco, CA, USA | Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Baltimore, MD, USA | Harvard Medical School; Massachusetts General Hospital Boston, MA, USA; Howard Hughes Medical Institute |
| b. 1948 (in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia) | b. 1961 | b. 1952 (in London, United Kingdom) |
"for the discovery of how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase"
