Bay Area scientists Elizabeth H. Blackburn and Oliver E. Williamson Win Nobel Prize

Eleven Americans have been awarded the Nobel Prize in 2009, two of which reside in the Bay Area: Elizabeth H. Blackburn at the University of California San Francisco and Oliver E. Williamson at the University of California Berkeley.

Professor Elizabeth. H. Blackburn shares the prize in Physiology and Medicine "for the discovery of how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase”.

Professor Oliver E. Williamson at the University of California Berkeley shares The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2009 “for his analysis of economic governance, especially the boundaries of the firm”.

The other Nobel Prize winners of 2009 are:

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Elizabeth H. Blackburn, Carol W. Greider and Jack W. Szostak (USA)

The Nobel Prize in Physics
Charles K. Kao (China, UK), Willard S. Boyle and George E. Smith (USA)

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan (UK), Thomas A. Steitz (USA) and Ada E. Yonath (Israel)

The Nobel Prize in Literature
Herta Müller (Germany)

The Nobel Peace Prize
Barack Obama (USA)

The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel
Elinor Ostrom and Oliver E. Williamson (USA)

Read more at the official website of the Nobel Foundation: www.Nobelprize.org.

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