Nobel Prize winners in Science (Physics, Chemistry and Medicine) :Year 2009


Physics:2009

Charles Kuen (Born 4 November 1933) who is widely regarded as the "Father of Fiber Optic Communications", was awarded half of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physics for "groundbreaking achievements concerning the transmission of light in fibers for optical communication".

Willard Sterling Boyle (born August 19, 1924)is a Canadian physicist and co-inventor of the charge-coupled device.
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George Elwood Smith (born May 10, 1930) is an American scientist, applied physicist, and co-inventor of the charge-coupled device.

On October 6, they were awarded a one-quarter share each in the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physics for "the invention of an imaging semiconductor circuit—the CCD sensor".


Chemistry: 2009

Venkatraman "Venki" Ramakrishnan (born 1952 in Chidambaram, Tamil Nadu, India) is a structural biologist at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, England.

Thomas Arthur Steitz (born August 23, 1940) is a Sterling Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA

Ada E. Yonath (born 1939) is an Israeli crystallographer best known for her pioneering work on the structure of the ribosome. She is the current director of the Helen and Milton A. Kimmelman Center for Biomolecular Structure and Assembly of the Weizmann Institute of Science. She become the first Israeli woman to win the Nobel Prize out of nine Israeli Nobel laureates, and the first woman in 45 years to win the Nobel Prize for Chemistry.

Venkatraman Ramakrishnan,Thomas Arthur Steitz and Ada E. Yonath were together awarded the 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for studies of the structure and function of the ribosome".


Physiology/Medicine:2009

Elizabeth Helen Blackburn, (born November 26, 1948) is an Australian born biological researcher at the University of California, San Francisco.

Carolyn Widney "Carol" Greider (born April 15, 1961) is a molecular biologist at the Johns Hopkins University, USA

Jack William Szostak (born November 9, 1952) is a biologist and Professor of Genetics at Harvard Medical School and Alexander Rich Distinguished Investigator at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston.

All three share the 2009 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for “the discovery of how chromosomes are protected by telomeres”. Apart from this achievement Elizabeth Blackburn Co-discovered telomerase enzyme (responsible for replicating telomere) with Carolyn Widney who worked under her in 1984.

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