Carol W.Greider is a biologist who discovered something very important. When she completed her Ph.D. from the university of Cal Berkeley She then went of into researching of the cell. She then saw a thing called a telomerase that can cause cancer if destroyed. She was researching in Long Island, New York when she discovered a protein that stops telomerase from disintegrating. She then got the nobel peace prize for discovering that in the year 2009. Carol Greider was born in San Diego she then moved to Davis California where she grew up. She then graduated from the college of creative students with a B.A. degree in biology. She then went to the university of gottingen and made a few discoveries there. After her discovery she then got married
