Elizabeth Helen Blackburn is an Australian–American Nobel laureate who is the former president of the Salk Institute for Biological Studies. In 1984, Blackburn co-discovered telomerase, the enzyme that replenishes the telomere, with Carol W. Greider. For this work, she was awarded the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, sharing it with Carol W. Greider and Jack W. Szostak, becoming the first Australian woman Nobel laureate. The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2009, announced October 5, 2009. Elizabeth H. Blackburn, Carol W. Greider, and Jack W. Szostak, “for the discovery of how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase”. Elizabeth H. Blackburn: born 1948, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. Carol W. Greider: born 1961, San Diego, CA, USA. Jack W. Szostak: born 1952, London, United Kingdom. Wiki link Wiki link Wiki link Data: the Nobel Foundation (CC0).