Martin rodbell biography
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Martin Rodbell (born December 1, , Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.—died December 7, , Chapel Hill, North Carolina) was an American biochemist who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for his discovery in the s of natural signal transducers called G-proteins that help cells in the body....
Martin Rodbell
American biochemist
Martin Rodbell (December 1, 1925[1] – December 7, 1998) was an American biochemist and molecularendocrinologist who is best known for his discovery of G-proteins.
He shared the 1994 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Alfred G. Gilman for "their discovery of G-proteins and the role of these proteins in signal transduction in cells."
Biography
Rodbell was born in Baltimore, Maryland, the son of Shirley (née Abrams) and Milton Rodbell, a grocer.[2] His family was Jewish.[3] After graduating from the Baltimore City College high school, he entered Johns Hopkins University in 1943, with interests in biology and French existential literature.
In 1944, his studies were interrupted by his military service as a U.S. Navyradio operator during World War II. He returned to Hopkins in 1946 and received his B.S. in biology in 1949. In 1950, he married Barbara Charlotte Ledermann, a former friend of Margot Frank, di