Nobel prizes 2009 in scientific fields announced

The Nobel prizes which are given away by the Royal Academy of Swedish Sciences since 1901, today, announced the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Earlier i.e. yesterday and the day before, the Nobel Prizes for Medicine (Physiology) and Physics were announced. The Nobel Prizes are given each year for achievements in Science, literature, peace and economics, the latter three are yet to be announced. As far as the scientific fields are concerned, the Nobel Prize for Medicine was shared by Elizabeth H. Blackburn, Carol W. Greider and Jack W. Szostak of the USA for the discovery of how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase. In a clear sense, how chromosomes are protected from degradation and how they can be replicated in a complete manner during cell-division. All three laureates shared the prize equally. Blackburn is associated with the University of California, whereas Greider is associated with the School of medicine of the Johns Hopkins University of USA and Szostak, the Englishman but a US citizen, belongs of the Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts general hospital, USA and the Howards Hughes medical Institute.    The Nobel Prize in Physics was shared again by three laureates, but here for two different achieve...