Hopkins scientist shares Nobel Prize

"This award recognizes work of incomparable originality and insight," said Hopkins President Ronald J. Daniels. "Carol's work really demonstrates how all of our aspirations and hopes for our colleagues can be fulfilled in such a dramatic and arresting way."

She's also a role model for a new generation of scientists, said Agre. "Young scientists have to realize Carol was in graduate school: On her first rotation she did an experiment that changed everything," he said. "So science is for young people."

Recent Nobel Prize winners in science and medicine affiliated with the Johns Hopkins University

•Carol Greider

Daniel Nathans professor and director of molecular biology and genetics

Institute of Basic Biomedical Sciences, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine

•Andrew Fire

Adjunct professor of biology

Nobel Prize in Medicine, 2006

•Dr. Richard Axel

1971 medical school graduate

Nobel Prize in Medicine, 2004

•Dr. Peter Agre

Director of the Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute

Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 2003

•Paul Greengard

Ph.D. in biophysics, 1953

Nobel Prize in Medicine, 2000