Roderick MacKinnon:
Roderick MacKinnon is an American biochemist and Nobel laureate.
Birth:
February 19, 1956 in Burlington, Massachusetts
Claim to Fame:
MacKinnon is an American biochemist who was awarded half of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his research on ion channels, the proteins that control the cell potential of cells. His work described how these proteins generate nerve impulses by opening paths in cell membranes to allow ions to carry electrical charges across the cells.
