Roderick MacKinnon

Roderick MacKinnon , born the February 19th 1956 with Burlington in the Massachusetts, is a Biochimiste and American doctor which obtained in 2003, with Peter Agre, the Nobel Prize of chemistry.

Biography

Roderick MacKinnon is molecular professor of neurobiology and biophysics to the Université Rockefeller with New York and also works for the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.

Scientific contributions

Roderick MacKinnon is known in particular thanks to its research on the structure of the ionic channels calcic and potassic implied in the transport of the electrical signals of the cell S. In 1998, it makes a success of the first complete crystallization of a Canal potassium and its fine structural analysis by Diffractométrie of x-rays.

External bonds

  • Prizes winner of the Nobel Prize of chemistry 2003
  • Autobiography on the site of the foundation Nobel

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