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Randy Schekman
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Person

Randy Schekman

b. 1948

Nobel prize winning American cell biologist

Born
30 Dec 1948 · Saint Paul

Life timeline

Their life from birth to death. On the timeline, world events of the time are shown faintly.

Showing 90 years
  1. 30 Dec 1948BornBorn in Saint Paul
  2. 1993AwardRosenstiel Award
  3. 1996AwardCanada Gairdner International Award
  4. 2002AwardAlbert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research
  5. 2002AwardLouisa Gross Horwitz Prize
  6. 2005AwardKeith R. Porter Lecture
  7. 2007AwardFellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
  8. 2007AwardVan Deenen Medal
  9. 2008AwardDickson Prize in Medicine
  10. 2009AwardClarivate Citation Laureates
  11. 2010AwardE. B. Wilson Medal
  12. 2010AwardMassry Prize
  13. 2013AwardNobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

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Meanwhile in the world

Major world events during their lifetime (1948 – today).

  1. 19501950 FIFA World Cup
  2. 1950 – 1953Korean War
  3. 1953 – 1959Cuban Revolution
  4. 19541954 FIFA World Cup
  5. 1955 – 1975Vietnam War
  6. 1956Hungarian Revolution of 1956
  7. 1956Suez Crisis
  8. 19581958 FIFA World Cup
  9. 1959Antarctic Treaty System
  10. 19621962 FIFA World Cup
  11. 1962Cuban Missile Crisis
  12. 19661966 FIFA World Cup
  13. 1966 – 1976Cultural Revolution
  14. 1968Prague Spring
  15. 1969Apollo 11 Moon landing
  16. 19721972 Summer Olympics
  17. 19741974 FIFA World Cup
  18. 19781978 FIFA World Cup
  19. 1978 – 1979Iranian Revolution
  20. 1979 – 1989Soviet–Afghan War
  21. 1980 – 1988Iran–Iraq War
  22. 19841984 Summer Olympics
  23. 1985Schengen Agreement
  24. 19891989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre
  25. 1989Fall of the Berlin Wall
  26. 19901990 FIFA World Cup
  27. 1991Dissolution of the Soviet Union
  28. 19941994 FIFA World Cup
  29. 1994 – 1996First Chechen War
  30. 19981998 FIFA World Cup
  31. 2001 – 2021War in Afghanistan
  32. 2003 – 2011Iraq War
  33. 20042004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami
  34. 20062006 FIFA World Cup
  35. 20082008 Summer Olympics
  36. 2008Russo-Georgian War
  37. 20102010 Haiti earthquake
  38. 2010 – 2012Arab Spring
  39. 20112011 Norway attacks
  40. 2011Libyan civil war

Biography

Randy Wayne Schekman (born December 30, 1948) is an American cell biologist at the University of California, Berkeley, former editor-in-chief of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and former editor of Annual Review of Cell and Developmental Biology. In 2011, he was announced as the editor of eLife, a new high-profile open-access journal published by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Max Planck Society and the Wellcome Trust, launching in 2012. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1992. Schekman shared the 2013 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine with James Rothman and Thomas C. Südhof for their ground-breaking work on cell membrane vesicle trafficking.

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