Peter Agre

American chemist, recipient of Nobel Prize in Chemistry

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Peter Agre is an American chemist, molecular biologist, university teacher, and physician. Born in Northfield on January 30, 1949, he holds a Doctor of Medicine degree. He has been employed by Johns Hopkins University, Duke University, and the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Agre is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Russian Academy of Sciences, and the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters.

His field of work is molecular biology, and he was influenced by Pedro Cuatrecasas. Agre received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, the Karl Landsteiner Memorial Award, and a fellowship from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is also recognized in the American Academy Arts Sciences collection and the Nobel Laureates collection. His works include *Red Blood Cell Membranes : Structure : Function* and *Can Scientists Succeed Where Politicians Fail?*

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Can Scientists Succeed Where Politicians Fail?
Red Blood Cell Membranes : Structure : Function

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5 total works indexed

Cutoff criteria for fit indexes in covariance structure analysis: Conventional criteria versus new alternatives
· 1999 · cited 87,375x
A new method of classifying prognostic comorbidity in longitudinal studies: Development and validation
· 1987 · cited 42,806x
QIIME allows analysis of high-throughput community sequencing data
· 2010 · cited 30,945x
RoB 2: a revised tool for assessing risk of bias in randomised trials
· 2019 · cited 25,538x
The ERA5 global reanalysis
· 2020 · cited 24,174x

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Quotes

“The need for general scientific understanding by the public has never been larger, and the penalty for scientific illiteracy never harsher… Lack of scientific fundamentals causes people to make foolish decisions about issues such as the toxicity of chemicals, the efficacy of medicines, the changes in the global climate.”
“Our single greatest defense against scientific ignorance is education, and early in the life of every scientist, the child's first interest was sparked by a teacher.”

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Nobel Prize

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry2003
“for the discovery of water channels”
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Encyclopedic overview

Peter Agre (/ˈɑːɡriː/; born January 30, 1949) is a Nobel Laureate American physician, molecular biologist, Bloomberg Distinguished Professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, and director of the Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute. In 2003, Agre and Roderick MacKinnon shared the 2003 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for "discoveries concerning channels in cell membranes." Agre was recognized for his discovery of aquaporin water channels. Aquaporins are water-channel proteins that move water molecules through the cell membrane. In 2009, Agre was elected president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and became active in science diplomacy.

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