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James Rothman
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American biologist and Nobel laureate
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James Edward Rothman is an American biochemist, physician, and university teacher born in Haverhill on November 3, 1950. He holds a Doctor of Philosophy degree from Harvard Medical School, where his doctoral advisor was Eugene Kennedy. His academic career has included positions at Princeton University, Yale School of Medicine, Columbia University, and Stanford University. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Academia Europaea, and the European Molecular Biology Organization.
Rothman’s field of work is biochemistry, and he has authored works including "Reconstitution of Intracellular Transport" and "Protein Sorting by Transport Vesicles." He has received the Heinrich Wieland Prize, Rosenstiel Award, Canada Gairdner International Award, and Richard Lounsbery Award. Additionally, he is recognized in the Nobel Medicine collection.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 1
Top works
- Reconstitution of Intracellular Transport
- Protein Sorting by Transport Vesicles
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United Kingdom
Discography
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- The PRISMA 2020 statement: an updated guideline for reporting systematic reviews
· 2021 · cited 84,951x
- Special points for Brillouin-zone integrations
· 1976 · cited 68,286x
- Fiji: an open-source platform for biological-image analysis
· 2012 · cited 66,835x
- SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python
· 2020 · cited 36,494x
- Structural equation modeling in practice: A review and recommended two-step approach.
· 1988 · cited 31,712x
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Key facts
- Born
- James Edward Rothman , ( 1950-11-03 ) November 3, 1950 (age 75) , Haverhill, Massachusetts , U.S.
- Alma mater
- Yale University (BA) Harvard University (PhD)
- Awards
- Heinrich Wieland Prize (1990) Rosenstiel Award (1993) Richard Lounsbery Award (1997) Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize (2002) Albert Lasker award (2002) E. B. Wilson Medal (2010) Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (2013)
- Fields
- Cell biology
- Institutions
- Yale University Columbia University University College London Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Princeton University Stanford University
- Thesis
- Transbilayer asymmetry and its maintenance in biological membranes (1976)
- Academic advisors
- Harvey Lodish
- Website
- medicine .yale .edu /profile /james-rothman /
via Wikipedia infobox
Nobel Prize
- The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine2013
“for their discoveries of machinery regulating vesicle traffic, a major transport system in our cells”
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Encyclopedic overview
James Edward Rothman (born November 3, 1950) is an American biochemist. He is the Fergus F. Wallace Professor of Biomedical Sciences at Yale University, the chairman of the Department of Cell Biology at Yale School of Medicine, and the director of the Nanobiology Institute at the Yale West Campus. Rothman also concurrently serves as adjunct professor of physiology and cellular biophysics at Columbia University and a research professor at the UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, University College London.
Rothman was awarded the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, for his work on vesicle trafficking (shared with Randy Schekman and Thomas C. Südhof). He received many other honors including the King Faisal International Prize in 1996, the Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize from Columbia University and the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research both in 2002.
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