James Rothman, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

James Rothman

American biologist and Nobel laureate

Date of Birth: 03-Nov-1950

Place of Birth: Haverhill, Massachusetts, United States

Profession: physician, biologist, university teacher, biochemist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

James Edward Rothman (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).
He received many other honors including the King Faisal International Prize in 1996, the Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize from Columbia University and the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research both in 2002.