The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2003
Awarded on: 2003-10-08
"for structural and mechanistic studies of ion channels"
Affiliations:
- Rockefeller University – New York, NY, USA
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute – USA
Roderick MacKinnon
Born: 1956-02-19 in Burlington, MA, USA
Gender: male
Field: American biophysicist, neuroscientist, and businessman (born 1956)
Biography
Roderick MacKinnon 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.