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Peter Agre

1949 - Today

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Peter Agre (; born January 30, 1949) is Nobel Laureate American physician, molecular biologist, Bloomberg Distinguished Professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, and director of the Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute. In 2003, Agre and Roderick MacKinnon shared the 2003 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for "discoveries concerning channels in cell membranes." Agre was recognized for his discovery of aquaporin water channels. Aquaporins are water-channel proteins that move water molecules through the cell membrane. In 2009, Agre was elected president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and became active in science diplomacy. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Peter Agre is the 163rd most popular physician (up from 194th in 2019), the 1,370th most popular biography from United States (up from 1,564th in 2019) and the 24th most popular American Physician.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Peter Agre ranks 163 out of 726Before him are Gerhard Armauer Hansen, Georgios Papanikolaou, Jonas Salk, Herta Oberheuser, Agnodice, and Jean Marc Gaspard Itard. After him are Virginia Apgar, Magnus Hirschfeld, E. Donnall Thomas, Sushruta, Carl Wernicke, and Albert of Riga.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1949, Peter Agre ranks 75Before him are Billy Joel, Anna Lee Fisher, Ruud Krol, John Belushi, Kurmanbek Bakiyev, and Jerry Lawler. After him are Zoia Ceaușescu, Brahim Ghali, Anders Arborelius, Valery Leontiev, Jim Broadbent, and Vicky Leandros.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Peter Agre ranks 1,370 out of 20,380Before him are Stephen Curry (1988), Michael Flynn (1958), Dred Scott (1795), Sarah Jessica Parker (1965), Ron Howard (1954), and Ben Carson (1951). After him are Irving Fisher (1867), John Cocke (1925), Nettie Stevens (1861), John F. Kelly (1950), Wesley Snipes (1962), and Richard S. Castellano (1933).

Among PHYSICIANS In United States

Among physicians born in United States, Peter Agre ranks 24Before him are Dickinson W. Richards (1895), George H. Hitchings (1905), William Kaelin Jr. (1957), Ferid Murad (1936), Charles Best (1899), and Jonas Salk (1914). After him are Virginia Apgar (1909), E. Donnall Thomas (1920), Michael Stuart Brown (1941), Richard Axel (1946), Randy Schekman (1948), and Robert Lefkowitz (1943).