Known for his part in the discovery of G-proteins, Rodbell performed groundbreaking work in cell biology, specifically advancing knowledge regarding how cells communicate. For his work in this area, Rodbell shared the Nobel Prize in Medicine with...

Rodbell was born on December 1, 1925 in Baltimore, Maryland. He attended a special Baltimore high school that accepted boys from all over the city and prepared them to enter college as sophomores. He entered Johns Hopkins University in 1943, pursuing...

1925-1998 American biochemist who received the 1994 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for the discovery of G-proteins, a class of proteins responsible for translating chemical and hormonal messages to cells. In the 1960s, Rodbell discovered that...

Martin Rodbell (December 1, 1925 – December 7, 1998) was an American biochemist and molecular endocrinologist who is best known for his discovery of G-proteins. He shared the 1994 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Alfred G. Gilman for...

Martin Rodbell, 73, a biomedical research scientist at the National Institutes of Health who won a Nobel Prize in 1994 for discovering a vital molecular mechanism that helps cells respond to stimuli, died Dec. 7 at the University of North Carolina Hospital in Chapel...

I'm middle-aged and I've never seen anyone die. But one sunny, 60- degree day, my phone call came. It was my mother, and she was speaking in the awe-struck voice of a witness. The distance between her words, the implied chasms of meaning that...