Dr. Elizabeth H. Blackburn (born on November 26, 1948 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia) is a molecular biologist.
Blackburn is renowned for her discovery of the genetic enzyme "Telomerase". Blackburn isolated and precisely described telomeres in 1978, thus enhancing the understanding of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) on the part of molecular biologists around the world. The subsequent discovery of telomerase in 1985 brought new insight into the comp...
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- Nov 26, 1948 (age 61 years)
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- Elizabeth Helen Blackburn
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