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Roderick MacKinnon

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Roderick MacKinnon

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American neuroscientist

OverviewAI-generated

Roderick MacKinnon is a male person born on 1956-02-19. He is associated with the area of Eilean Siar and has been tagged with Scottish and British Isles descriptors. His professional output includes five works, with "Gaelic" listed among his top works.

MacKinnon has received one Nobel Prize. He is recognized in the Nobel Laureates collection and the Nobel Chemistry collection.

Synthesized by Vinony from 18 facts across 8 sources: Wikidata, Last.fm, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Open Library, Nobel Prize, Vinony collections, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Person · Open Library

Works
5

Top works

  • Gaelic

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
Eilean Siar
Active from
1858
Active to
1944

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
15
Total plays
18

Tags

ScottishBritish Isles

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Nobel Prize

  • The Nobel Prize in Chemistry2003

    for structural and mechanistic studies of ion channels

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
human
Gender
male
Citizenship
United States
Place of birth
Burlington
Occupation
internist
Languages spoken
English language
Field of work
biochemistry
Image
Roderick MacKinnon, M.D..jpg
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Commons category
Roderick MacKinnon
date of birth
1956-02-19
name in native language
Roderick MacKinnon
interested in
biochemistry
Sources (4)

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Encyclopedic overview

Roderick MacKinnon (born February 19, 1956) is an American biophysicist, neuroscientist, and businessman. He is a professor of molecular neurobiology and biophysics at Rockefeller University who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry together with Peter Agre in 2003 for his work on the structure and operation of ion channels.

Biography

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Roderick MacKinnon” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.