Robert Lefkowitz

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American physician and biochemist

Robert Joseph Lefkowitz is an American physician and biochemist. He is best known for his discoveries that reveal the inner workings of an important family G protein-coupled receptors, for which he was awarded the 2012 Nobel Prize for Chemistry... Wikipedia

Place of birth: The Bronx, New York, NY

Education: Harvard University, Columbia University, Duke University Hospital, and more

Books: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Stockholm: The Adrenaline Fueled Adventures of an Accidental Scientist and Receptor Binding Studies in Adrenergic Pharmacology

Awards: Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Albany Medical Center Prize, National Medal of Science for Biological Sciences, and more

Affiliation: Duke University

Research interests: GPCRs, Structural biology, Biochemistry, and more

Spouse(s): Arna Brandel (divorced); Lynn Tilley (m. 1991)