A Life in Science, with Elizabeth Blackburn
Thursday, October 6, 2011 - 14:30
in Earth & Climate
Biologist Elizabeth Blackburn grew up in Hobart on the Australian island of Tasmania. It was a long journey from there to a Nobel prize and the lab she runs at the University of California in San Francisco.Malaria researcher Clare Smith, an early-career scientist who attended this year's Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting in Germany, is also a Hobart girl, and she's trying to decide whether to follow in Blackburn's footsteps and move overseas after she finishes her PhD. [More]