Jack Szostak
- Prize
- Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — 2009for the discovery of how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase
- Citizenship
Canada
United States- Languages
- English
- date of birth
- 11/9/1952
- place of birth
- London
- Age
- 73 years
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- occupation
- professor
- molecular biologist
- biochemist
- geneticist
- biologist
- field of work
- cytogenetics
- biology
- genetics
- educated at
- McGill University
- academic degree: Bachelor of Science
- academic major: cell biology
- end time: 1971
- Cornell University
- academic degree: doctorate
- academic major: biochemistry
- McGill University
- employer
- University of Chicago
- Harvard University
- Harvard Medical School
- member of
- Royal Society of London
- start time: 2019
- National Academy of Sciences
- start time: 1998
- American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- Royal Society of London
- doctoral student
- David P. Bartel
- Jennifer Doudna