Nobel Prize

Mentor of L’Oréal Fellow wins Nobel Prize

10 October 2011

Tamara Davis, 2009 L’Oréal Australia Fellow tells of how she felt when she heard her mentors had won the Nobel Prize. Tuesday morning found me dancing in excitement when I heard the news that Brian Schmidt, Saul Perlmutter, and Adam Riess had won the Nobel Prize for their discovery of the acceleration of the expansion [...]

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2010 L’Oréal-UNESCO Laureates announced

6 November 2009

The winners of the 2010 L’ORÉAL-UNESCO Awards were announced on 14 October 2009. The five Laureates are: Africa & the Arab States: Rashika El Ridi, Professor at Cairo University in Egypt, for paving the way towards the development of a vaccine against the tropical disease Schistomiasis/Bilharzia. Asia-Pacific: Lourdes J. Cruz, Professor at the Marine Science [...]

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L’Oréal Laureates win Nobel Prizes in Medicine and Chemistry

9 October 2009

Two former L’Oréal Laureates have won 2009 Nobel Prizes. Australian-born US scientist Elizabeth Blackburn shares the 2009 Nobel Prize in Medicine with fellow US researchers Carol W. Greider and Jack W. Szostak “for the discovery of how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase.”

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Elizabeth Blackburn receives Nobel Prize

5 October 2009

Elizabeth Blackburn will receive the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. She shares the prize with Carol W. Greider and Jack W. Szostak “for the discovery of how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase.” She’s USA-based but Australian-born and visits Australia quite often.

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