Congratulations to the first Australian woman Nobel Prize winner!

Added 12 October 2009

Professor Elizabeth Blackburn, who attended Broadland House, Church of England Girls' Grammar School, Launceston, Tasmania, is a Medicine Nobel Laureate (2009). She co-discovered how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase, with her colleagues Carol Greider and Jack Szostak.

Professor Blackburn is the first Australian woman to be awarded a Nobel Prize.

Unfortunately, Broadland House amalgamated with Launceston Church Grammar School in 1981 and is now a co-educational school.

Read the details of Professor Balckburn's life and career on our FIRST WOMEN pages at http://agsa.org.au/resources.php?PageID=145

You will also find other FIRST WOMEN and WOMEN OF ACHIEVEMENT under Resources.

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