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When was the first time two women shared the Nobel Prize in the same field? |
It was not until 2009 that two women shared the Nobel Prize in the same field. Carol W. Greider (1961–) and Elizabeth H. Blackburn (1948–) shared the prize in Physiology or Medicine, along with Jack W. Szostak (1952–) for their discovery of how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase.