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Randy Schekman

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Randy Wayne Schekman (born December 30, 1948) is an American cell biologist at the University of California, Berkeley, former editor-in-chief of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and former editor of Annual Review of Cell and Developmental Biology. In 2011, he was announced as the editor of eLife, a new high-profile open-access journal published by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Max Planck Society and the Wellcome Trust launching in 2012. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1992. Schekman shared the 2013 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine with James Rothman and Thomas C. Südhof for their ground-breaking work on cell membrane vesicle trafficking. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Randy Schekman is the 195th most popular physician (up from 241st in 2019), the 1,805th most popular biography from United States (up from 1,990th in 2019) and the 29th most popular American Physician.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Randy Schekman ranks 195 out of 726. Before him are Andrea Cesalpino, Horst Schumann, Aretaeus of Cappadocia, Carl von Rokitansky, Richard Axel, and Werner Haase. After him are Fritz Klein, Hakaru Hashimoto, Torsten Wiesel, Hans Sloane, Franciscus Sylvius, and Robert Lefkowitz.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1948, Randy Schekman ranks 108. Before him are Michel Suleiman, Stevie Nicks, Alia Al-Hussein, John Gray, Nathalie Baye, and Akira Yoshino. After him are Krešimir Ćosić, James Ellroy, Mischa Maisky, George Abela, Jimmy Cliff, and Robert John "Mutt" Lange.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Randy Schekman ranks 1,805 out of 20,380. Before him are Steve Carell (1962), Ethan Hawke (1970), Bruno Mars (1985), Alben W. Barkley (1877), Thomas J. Sargent (1943), and David O. Selznick (1902). After him are Edgar Mitchell (1930), Donald P. Bellisario (1935), Mary Anderson (1918), Walter Mondale (1928), Kobe Bryant (1978), and Linda Gray (1940).

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Among PHYSICIANS In United States

Among physicians born in United States, Randy Schekman ranks 29. Before him are Jonas Salk (1914), Peter Agre (1949), Virginia Apgar (1909), E. Donnall Thomas (1920), Michael Stuart Brown (1941), and Richard Axel (1946). After him are Robert Lefkowitz (1943), Patch Adams (1945), Louis Ignarro (1941), Robin Cook (1940), Robert Atkins (1930), and John O'Keefe (1939).

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