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James Rothman

1950 - Today

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James Edward Rothman (born November 3, 1950) is an American biochemist. He is the Fergus F. Wallace Professor of Biomedical Sciences at Yale University, the Chairman of the Department of Cell Biology at Yale School of Medicine, and the Director of the Nanobiology Institute at the Yale West Campus. Rothman also concurrently serves as adjunct professor of physiology and cellular biophysics at Columbia University and a research professor at the UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, University College London. Rothman was awarded the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, for his work on vesicle trafficking (shared with Randy Schekman and Thomas C. Südhof). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. James Rothman is the 278th most popular biologist (down from 239th in 2019), the 2,515th most popular biography from United States (down from 2,253rd in 2019) and the 50th most popular American Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, James Rothman ranks 278 out of 1,097. Before him are C. L. Gloger, Jack W. Szostak, Carl Ludwig Blume, Leopold Fitzinger, Morten Thrane Brünnich, and Sergei Winogradsky. After him are Eduard Rüppell, Nathaniel Wallich, Johann Hermann, Hideyo Noguchi, André Marie Constant Duméril, and Josephus Nicolaus Laurenti.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1950, James Rothman ranks 114. Before him are Mithun Chakraborty, Hafiz Saeed, Ken Kutaragi, Tomomi Seo, Ubaldo Fillol, and John Hughes. After him are Javier Clemente, Googoosh, Jorge Carlos Fonseca, Eric Carr, Miho Kaneda, and Jeffery Deaver.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, James Rothman ranks 2,515 out of 20,380. Before him are Jane Darwell (1879), Don Taylor (1920), Louise Brooks (1906), Ron Paul (1935), Daniel Stern (1957), and Ry Cooder (1947). After him are Sterling Hayden (1916), Henry L. Stimson (1867), Geraldine Page (1924), Mary McDonnell (1952), Dana Elcar (1927), and Jeff Koons (1955).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United States

Among biologists born in United States, James Rothman ranks 50. Before him are Eric F. Wieschaus (1947), Jeffrey C. Hall (1945), Temple Grandin (1947), Stephen Jay Gould (1941), John du Pont (1938), and H. Robert Horvitz (1947). After him are Michael Rosbash (1944), Michael W. Young (1949), Wilbur Scoville (1865), Elmer Drew Merrill (1876), Gerrit Smith Miller (1869), and Andrew Fire (1959).

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