The Nobel Prize in Physics 2009

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"for groundbreaking achievements concerning the transmission of light in fibers for optical communication"

Charles K. Kao
1/2 of the prize
Standard Telecommunication Laboratories Harlow, United Kingdom; Chinese University of Hong Kong Hong Kong, China
b. 1933(in Shanghai, China)

for the invention of an imaging semiconductor circuit – the CCD sensor"

Willard S. Boyle
1/4 of the prize
Bell Laboratories Murray Hill, NJ, USA
b. 1924(in Amherst, NS, Canada)

George E. Smith
1/4 of the prize
Bell Laboratories Murray Hill, NJ, USA
b. 1930

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2009

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"for the discovery of how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase"

Elizabeth H. Blackburn
1/3 of the prize
USA
University of California San Francisco, CA, USA
b. 1948(in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia)

Carol W. Greider
1/3 of the prize
USA
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Baltimore, MD, USA
b. 1961

Jack W. Szostak
1/3 of the prize
USA
Harvard Medical School; Massachusetts General Hospital Boston, MA, USA; Howard Hughes Medical Institute
b. 1952(in London, United Kingdom)

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2009

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"for studies of the structure and function of the ribosome"

Venkatraman Ramakrishnan Thomas A. Steitz Ada E. Yonath

Venkatraman Ramakrishnan (Photo: MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology )
1/3 of the prize
United Kingdom
MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology Cambridge, United Kingdom
b. 1952(in Chidambaram, Tamil Nadu, India)

Thomas A. Steitz (Credits: Michael Marsland/Yale University)
1/3 of the prize
USA
Yale University New Haven, CT, USA; Howard Hughes Medical Institute
b. 1940

Ada E. Yonath (Credits: Micheline Pelletier/Corbis )
1/3 of the prize
Israel
Weizmann Institute of Science Rehovot, Israel
b. 1939