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Originally Posted by norm
I was impressed, until I found out she has lived in California for a better part of 30 years......hardly Aussie anymore. 
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True. Sadly, if the truth be known, if she didn't go to California she probably wouldn't had the opportunity get the prize. Opportunities for advancement in area of the biological sciences are few and far between in Australia. Still her general formative years were in Australia and was moulded in to shape. Her dual citizenship is often difficult to assess - if she got an aussie passport, is she still Australian. I wonder if she got the Rudd Stimulus Package bonus?
Also, she really doesn't sound like a "septic", does she?
In the end, are the "dandies" claiming her? Of course they are!!
I.e. The New York Times said in "
Nobel Prize Recognizes Communications Advances" (
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/07/sc...l.html?_r=1&hp )
"On Monday, three American scientists shared the Nobel Prize in medicine for discovering a key mechanism in the genetic operations of cells, an insight that has inspired new lines of research into cancer.
Elizabeth H. Blackburn, who also has Australian citizenship, Carol W. Greider and Jack W. Szostak were cited for their work in solving the mystery of how chromosomes, the rod-like structures that carry DNA, protect themselves from degrading when cells divide."
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BBC Science Team Presents Yet Another Shocker
(Sorry, again, but I have to say it!)
This is unlike the BBC Dodos, who don't even acknowledge their names or nationalities at all. I.e.
"This year's medicine Nobel, announced on Monday, honoured the study of telomeres, the structures in cells that cap the end's of DNA bundles, or chromosomes.
The work has further our understanding on human ageing, cancer and stem cells."
All they go as usual is just pretend it one of their UK scientists!!
Even worse here was in the earlier BBC misleading epiece entitled;
"Nobel prize for chromosome find" says Elizabeth's Blackburn's name twice, but their selected quote says something minor and leaves a negative impression.
I.e. "Prizes are always a nice thing. It doesn't change the research per se, of course, but it's lovely to have the recognition and share it with Carol Greider and Jack Szostak."
They then have the gaul to quote Professor Roger Reddel of the Children's Medical Research Institute in Sydney, Australia, saying: "
The telomerase story is an outstanding illustration of the value of basic research."
The BBC Science team again are simply dipsticks. I.e. Showing chromosomes as sausages on bench is plain ludicrous.
Typical petty blasted bias, and they sure got that down pat methinks.