MacKinnon, Roderick

Roderick MacKinnon
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Name	MacKinnon, Roderick Gender: M
born on	19 February 1956 at 06:25 (= 06:25 AM )
Place	Melrose, Massachusetts, 42n28, 71w04
Timezone	EST h5w (is standard time)
Data source	Quoted BC/BR Rodden Rating AA Collector: Taglilatelo
Astrology data	29°48' 00°55 Asc. 23°18'

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Roderick MacKinnon

Biography

American physician and scientist, shared the 2003 Nobel Prize in chemistry for insights into working with channels into cell membranes. In 1999, he was awarded the Lasker Basic Medical Research Award.

Fascinated by science as a young boy, he graduated from Brandeis University in 1978 with a major in biochemistry and earned his MD from Tufts University in 1982. In 1986, however, he gave up his promising medical career to investigate scientific problems and returned to Brandeis for postdoctoral work in biochemistry while continuing to work for the Harvard Medical School laboratory.

In 1996, he and his wife moved to New York where he joined the Rockefeller University faculty, is a member of Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Honors Society, a PEW scholar in the Biomedical Sciences and the recipient of the McKnight Scholars Award, the Biophysical Society Young Investigator Award, the McKnight Investigator Award, the W. Alden Spencer Award and the AAAS Newcomb Cleveland Prize. He has also been an investigator for the prestigious Howard Hughes Medical Institute where his interest has been the principles of electricity in biology.

In 2000, MacKinnon was elected to membership in the U.S. National Academy of Sciences (NAS).

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Events

• Work : Prize 1999 (Lasker Basic Medical Research Award)

• Work : Gain social status 2000 (elected to U.S. National Academy of Sciences)

• Work : Prize 2003 (shared the Nobel inChemistry)

Source Notes

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Categories

• Traits : Mind : Education extensive (physician turned scientist)

• Vocation : Science : Biology

• Vocation : Science : Chemistry

• Notable : Extraordinary Talents : For Problem Solving

• Notable : Awards : Nobel prize

• Notable : Awards : Other Awards (Lasker Basic Medical Research Award in 1999)

• Notable : Famous : Top 5% of Profession (won Nobel in 2003)