Jack W. Szostak
Biologist, Academic
1952 –
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Who is Jack W. Szostak?
Jack William Szostak is a Canadian American biologist of Polish British descent and Professor of Genetics at Harvard Medical School and Alexander Rich Distinguished Investigator at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston. He was awarded the 2009 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, along with Elizabeth Blackburn and Carol W. Greider, for the discovery of how chromosomes are protected by telomeres.
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- Born
- Nov 9, 1952
London - Also known as
- Jack Szostak
- Ethnicity
- White people
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Canada
- Profession
- Education
- Doctorate, Cornell University
Biochemistry - Bachelor of Science, McGill University
Cell biology
( - 1971) - Riverdale High School
- Doctorate, Cornell University
- Employment
- Harvard University
- Lived in
- United States of America
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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