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A Nobel win for Blackburn and the US universities

06 Oct 11:00am

Filed under: Elizabeth Blackburn, Nobel Prize, Science, Teaching

Great news today with Australian born molecular biologist Professor Elizabeth Blackburn being awarded the Nobel prize for physiology and medicine.

Professor Blackburn with the lab stuff

Professor Blackburn becomes the first ever Australian woman to be awarded the prize in any category and the 36th woman ever out of 789 individuals to win the award.

Like most Australians I had never heard of Blackburn or her amazing research before today, but it now appears we are in clambering with America to claim her as one of our own.

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Amused says:

09:29am | 07/10/09

The other side of the coin as far as the “brain drain” is concerned is that a lot of people with talent just don’t consider a research career. Why would you? You choose the hard science route, you’ve got four years undergraduate, three years PhD (at least) and then a… Read more »
Dr G says:

01:50am | 07/10/09

Dr M, Agree completely. I made the move to England 5.5 years ago as the only R&D opportunities available to me was in mining (not my interest), academia (lower salaries), or to move to the US or the UK. Granted, I work in a sector that doesn’t reward its people… Read more »

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