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Alfred G. Gilman
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American pharmacologist (1941-2015)
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Alfred G. Gilman was born on July 1, 1941, and died on December 23, 2015. He held an Erdős number of 4.
He received one Nobel Prize. His work is recognized in the Nobel Laureates collection, the Nobel Medicine collection, and the American Academy Arts Sciences collection.
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Key facts
- Born
- Alfred Goodman Gilman , July 1, 1941, New Haven, Connecticut , U.S
- Died
- December 23, 2015 (2015-12-23) (aged 74), Dallas, Texas , U.S.
- Alma mater
- Yale University (B.A., 1962), Case Western Reserve University (MD-Ph.D., 1969)
- Known for
- G proteins
- Spouse
- Kathryn Hedlund
- Awards
- John J. Abel Award (1975) , Richard Lounsbery Award (1987) , Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize (1989) , Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1994)
- Fields
- Biochemistry , Pharmacology
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Nobel Prize
- The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine1994
“for their discovery of G-proteins and the role of these proteins in signal transduction in cells”
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Alfred
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- New Haven
- Place of death
- Dallas
- Occupation
- physiologist
- Educated at
- Case Western Reserve University
- Employer
- University of Virginia
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Field of work
- pharmacology
- Image
- Alfred Goodman Gilman (cropped).jpg
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- date of birth
- 1941-07-01
- Commons category
- Alfred G. Gilman
- Erdős number
- 4
- date of death
- 2015-12-23
- manner of death
- natural causes
- cause of death
- pancreatic cancer
- interested in
- pharmacology
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Encyclopedic overview
Alfred Goodman Gilman (July 1, 1941 – December 23, 2015) was an American pharmacologist and biochemist. He and Martin Rodbell shared the 1994 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for their discovery of G-proteins and the role of these proteins in signal transduction in cells."
Gilman was the son of Alfred Gilman, who co-authored Goodman & Gilman's The Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics with Louis S. Goodman, from whom his middle name came. He earned a BA in biology with major in biochemistry from Yale University. Immediately after graduation in 1962, he worked with Allan Conney at Burroughs Wellcome & Company, which resulted in the publication of his first two technical papers. Persuaded by Earl Wilbur Sutherland, Jr., he joined Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine for an MD–PhD course. He obtained his degree in 1969. He then went to the National Institutes of Health to work with Marshall Nirenberg between 1969 and 1971.
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