It was announced from Stockholm, Sweden, on Monday(5.10.2009) by The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet that it has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physiology (or Medicine) 2009 jointly to Elizabeth H. Blackburn, Carol W. Greider and Jack W. Sczostak. This prize is going to be shared by the three U.S. Scientists announced above for their discovery of key aspects in the genetic operations of cells, which inspires new lines of research into cancer.

 
Elizabeth Blackburn of the University of California, San Francisco, Carol W. Greider of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and Jack W. Szostak of Harvard Medical School share the $1.4 million award for their discovery of telomeres, small sections of DNA that protect the integrity of cellular DNA as animals and most other organisms age. They also discovered telomerase, the enzyme that manufactures telomeres and gives cancer cells their eternal life.  Ten women have won the Nobel in medicine in the past, but this is the first time that two have shared the prize in the same year.  So,  feather on the hat of U.S. Trio Medical Scientists.

 Immediately on the very next day, Tuesday(6.10.2009), Nobel Institute announced the Nobel Prize for Physics for the year 2009.  Charles K. Kao, Willard S. Boyle and George E. Smith have won this year's Nobel Prize for Physics.  Kao was cited 'for groundbreaking achievements concerning the transmission of light in fibres for optical communication' while Boyle and Smith were cited for inventing the CCD sensor, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said.

Seventy six year old British-American Professor Charles K. Kao is an engineer and a pioneer in the use of fiber optics in telecommunications received half the total prize money of $1.4 million. K. Kao is widely regarded as the Father of Fiber Optic Communications. With the Nobel in his pocket he would be tagged as someone who brought the internet to its next stage. The other half of the prize is shared by Willard Boyle and George Smith of Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, N.J., for work that led to the charge-coupled device. The CCD sensor turns light into electrical signals and eliminates the need for capturing images on film, a far more cumbersome and expensive approach. Drs. Smith and Boyle are American; Dr. Boyle also holds Canadian citizenship. These three physicists are described as "masters of light" by the Nobel committe.
WAV! One more feather on the hat of U.S. Physicists. Great!!!