The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences says it is honoring the researchers for showing how telomeres and the enzyme that makes them protect chromosomes.

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He received a gold medal from the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences in nineteen ninety-five.

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The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences is honoring all three researchers for studies of the structure and operation of a kind of cell called a ribosome.

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But the winners of the physics prize are chosen by a different institution, Sweden's Royal Academy of Sciences.

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The technique itself is 90 years old, and even the Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences is not that backward-looking.

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And perhaps the Karolinska could spare a thought for Leroy Hood, who invented the sequencing technique that made the whole thing possible though that work might, more properly, fall within the purview of the Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences, which decides the winners of the chemistry (and also the physics) prizes.

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