Peter Agre
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Peter Agre is an American chemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his scientific discoveries. His work is significant because it advanced our understanding of fundamental chemical and biological processes that are important to human health and medicine.
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- 1949-01-30
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- Can Scientists Succeed Where Politicians Fail?
- Red Blood Cell Membranes : Structure : Function
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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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1949 births21st-century American chemistsAmerican molecular biologistsAmerican Nobel laureatesAmerican people of Norwegian descentAmerican people of Swedish descentAugsburg University alumniDuke University facultyFellows of the American Academy of Arts and SciencesFellows of the American Academy of MicrobiologyForeign fellows of Pakistan Academy of Sciences