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Elizabeth H. Blackburn...
Though she’s already been the recipient of honorary degrees from five other universities, molecular biologist Elizabeth H. Blackburn can now add another from Harvard...
...leader in the research of telomeres, part of the DNA in chromosomes which keep genetic information consistent, Blackburn has been recognized numerous times for her work. Her honors include the National Academy of Science’s Molecular Biology Award (1990), the California Scientist of the Year award (1999), the American Cancer Society Medal of Honor (2000), and the Dr. A.H. Heineken Prize for Medicine...
Born in Hobart, Tasmania on Nov. 26, 1948, Blackburn studied biochemistry at the University of Melbourne where she received both a bachelor’s and master’s of science degree. After completing post-doctoral work at Yale in the mid-1970s, she became a professor at University of California, Berkeley for 12 years and then assumed a professorship at University of California, San Francisco...
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and her British counterpart, Jack Straw, were the picture of transatlantic harmony as Rice visited Straw's constituency in Blackburn, England, last week. Their good cheer reflected the continuing official closeness of their two countries--the tightest of coalition partners three years into the war in Iraq despite the opposition of much of the rest of the world and the fact that, as Rice conceded last week, "we've made tactical errors, thousands of them," in Iraq. (She later said she meant it "figuratively.") But not everyone in the British government is smiling. A dispute...