Science alumnus Jack Szostak wins Nobel Prize

The Faculty of Science is proud to congratulate McGill Science alumnus Jack Szostak (BSc'72) on winning the 2009 Nobel Prize for Medicine. Szostak, who is sharing the prize with fellow US scientists, Elizabeth Blackburn and Carol Greider, won the Nobel for discovering how the body protects chromosomes housing vital genetic code. He has been at Harvard Medical School since 1979 and is currently professor of genetics at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. Szostak, a McGill University Scholarship winner in 1971 who received his BSc in cell biology in 1972, is the seventh researcher associated with McGill's Faculty of Science to have won a Nobel Prize. The others are:

Professors

Ernest Rutherford (Chemistry, 1908)
Frederick Soddy (Chemistry, 1921)

Graduates

Andrew Victor Schally (Medicine, 1977)
Val Fitch (Physics, 1980)
David Hubel (Medicine, 1981)
Rudolph Marcus (Chemistry, 1993)