2009 Nobel for Medicine

[hummingwolf]

Elizabeth H. Blackburn, Carol W. Greider, and Jack W. Szostak are this year's winners for the Nobel Prize in medicine for their research into telomeres (the tips of chromosomes) and telomerase (the enzyme that builds telomeres); discoveries which, in the words of the prize committee, "have added a new dimension to our understanding of the cell, shed light on disease mechanisms, and stimulated the development of potential new therapies."

This is the first time two women have won the prize in medicine in the same year. But what I'm wondering is, how many times has a winner of a Nobel prize quoted Monty Python?

Comments

[hummingwolf.livejournal.com]

Why, whatever do you mean? Barack H. Obama has put in decades of hard work not being George W. Bush!!

[hasufin.livejournal.com]

So have I! And I need the million bucks!

Yeah, that bothers me a bit. Obama's cool and all, but I kind of figured that someone would have to actually do something prior to being given the prize (upon a little bit of research, that's not always the case - they often give it as an encouragement to keep up a promising effort).

But, at any rate, obviously at least one of the prize committees is perfectly capable of moving fast.