Martin Rodbell:
Martin Rodbell was an American biochemist and Nobel laureate.
Birth:
December 1, 1925 in Baltimore, Maryland
Death:
December 7, 1998 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Claim to Fame:
Rodbell was an American biochemist who shares the 1994 Nobel Prize in Medicine with Alfred Gilman for their discovery of G-proteins and their role in signal transduction within the cell. G-proteins are a family of proteins that work as switches and intermediary between guanosine diphosphate (GDP) and guanosine triphosphate (GTP) to regulate downstream cell processes.
