+ The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2009 has been awarded jointly to Elizabeth H. Blackburn, Carol W. Greider and Jack W. Szostak for the discovery of "how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase". nobelprize.org
Press Release, 5 October 2009, nobelprize.org
The link address is: http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/2009/press.html

