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Born October 22, 1903 • Nebraska
Died June 9, 1989 (aged 85) • Pomona • California
Awards And Honors Nobel Prize (1958)
Subjects Of Study vinegar fly • mold • mutation • one gene–one enzyme hypothesis

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English-born American biochemist and geneticist Jack W. Szostak.
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Elizabeth Blackburn
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Barbara McClintock
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