BIOLOGIST

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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of James Rothman has received more than 174,300 page views. His biography is available in 51 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 49 in 2019). James Rothman is the 239th most popular biologist (up from 304th in 2019), the 2,253rd most popular biography from United States (up from 3,057th in 2019) and the 45th most popular American Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, James Rothman ranks 239 out of 1,097Before him are Ludwik Fleck, Carl Gustav Carus, Howard Martin Temin, Vladimir Demikhov, Nehemiah Grew, and Lorenz Oken. After him are Willi Hennig, Rudolf Vrba, Joseph Gerhard Zuccarini, William Aiton, Antoine Béchamp, and Carl Correns.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1950, James Rothman ranks 105Before him are Ubaldo Fillol, William Sadler, Håkan Nesser, Jean-Marc Ayrault, Victoria Principal, and John Landis. After him are Joe Perry, Tom Petty, Barbara Sukowa, Terry Gou, Ken Kutaragi, and Steve McCurry.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, James Rothman ranks 2,253 out of 20,380Before him are Henry Bergman (1868), John Landis (1950), Carl Wieman (1951), Cy Twombly (1928), Robert Silverberg (1935), and Terry O'Quinn (1952). After him are Joe Perry (1950), Djuna Barnes (1892), Henry Murray (1893), Joseph D. Pistone (1939), Johnny Winter (1944), and Stanley Donen (1924).

Among BIOLOGISTS In United States

Among biologists born in United States, James Rothman ranks 45Before him are H. Robert Horvitz (1947), James Dwight Dana (1813), Clair Cameron Patterson (1922), George Smith (1941), Charles M. Rice (1952), and Howard Martin Temin (1934). After him are Martin Chalfie (1947), Michael Rosbash (1944), Carol W. Greider (1961), James Bond (1900), Henrietta Lacks (1920), and Eric F. Wieschaus (1947).