Guy Beres » Carol Greider http://guyberes.com On Sunday ring road supermarket. No killing moths or putting boiling water on the ants. Sun, 05 Feb 2012 19:03:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Professor Elizabeth Blackburn – Australian or American? http://guyberes.com/2009/10/06/professor-elizabeth-blackburn-australian-or-american/ http://guyberes.com/2009/10/06/professor-elizabeth-blackburn-australian-or-american/#comments Tue, 06 Oct 2009 09:51:37 +0000 Guy http://guyberes.com/2009/10/06/professor-elizabeth-blackburn-australian-or-american/ Its a case of much ado about nationality. According to Andrew Darby in The Age, joint Nobel Prize winner Professor Elizabeth Blackburn is unequivocally Australian. On the flip side of the coin, the Chinese state media have Blackburn down as a bonafide American, as does United Press International, although the latter admits Blackburn holds dual citizenship. Bernard Lane in the The Australian elects to start off on the right foot by noting that Blackburn is an Australian expatriate.

I don’t want to be a killjoy, but let’s celebrate all three of the Nobel winners (including Carol Greider and Jack Szostak) for medicine this year, regardless of nationality. Is there any reason why we can’t all tell it like it is – namely that Professor Blackburn’s recent residential history suggests that while she still might call Australia home, she calls the United States home first?

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