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Definition: Agre, Peter Courtland from Chambers Biographical Dictionary

1949-

♦ US biological chemist and Nobel Prize winner

Born in Northfield, Minnesota, he followed his father into science, studying chemistry at Augsburg College. An interest in tropical diseases and world health problems led him to study medicine at Johns Hopkins University, where laboratory research became the focus of his career. His research in biological chemistry led ultimately to the 1991 discovery of aquaporins - channels that control water transport in biological cells - for which he was awarded the 2003 Nobel Prize in chemistry (shared with Roderick MacKinnon). In 2009 he became president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

Agre, Peter (1949- )

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Place : United States of America Subject : biography, chemistry, biology US biochemist. He shared the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 2003 with Roderick MacKinnon for the discovery of aquaporins, proteins that are responsible for allowing water molecules to pass into, but not out of, cells, while preventing the entry of other molecules. Peter Agre was born on 30 January 1949 in Northfield, Minnesota. His father was the son of an immigrant from Norway and taught in the chemistry department at St Olaf College in Northfield. His mother was the daughter of Swedish and Norwegian immigrants. Peter Agre entered Augsburg College, Minneapolis, to study chemistry, taking his BA in 1970. He then studied at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland, gaining his MD in 1974. After post-doctoral work and a fellowship at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Agre returned to Johns Hopkins, where he held appointments in the departments of medicine and cell biology. …
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Place : United States of America Subject : biography, chemistry, biology US biochemist. He shared the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 2003 with Roderick MacKinnon for the discovery of aquaporins, proteins that are responsible for allowing water molecules to pass into, but not out of, cells, while…
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Nationality: American b. 30 January 1949, Northfield, MN, USA; For the discovery of water channels During World War II Peter Agre's parents migrated to Northfield, a town in the South of Minneapolis from Wallace, in eastern South Dakota. Agre's father had obtained his B.S. and Ph.D. in chemistry…
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1949–, American molecular biologist, b. Northfield, Minn., M.D. Johns Hopkins, 1974. From 1981 to 2005, Agre taught at Johns Hopkins in the departments of medicine and cell biology. He joined the Duke Univ. Medical Center in Durham, N.C., in 2005 as vice chancellor for science and technology. Agre…
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American biologist The field was essentially stuck, but following the well known scientific approach known as “sheer blind luck,” we stumbled upon the protein that is the answer to the question: do water channels exist? Les Prix Nobel. The Nobel Prizes in 2003 Nobel lecture for award received in…
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Full text Article Agre, Peter Courtland

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1949- ♦ US biological chemist and Nobel Prize winner Born in Northfield, Minnesota, he followed his father into science, studying chemistry at Augsburg College. An interest in tropical diseases and world health problems led him to study medicine at Johns Hopkins University, where laboratory research…
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Full text Article Nobel Prize for Chemistry

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Year Winner(s)1 Awarded for 1901 Jacobus van't Hoff (Netherlands) laws of chemical dynamics and osmotic pressure 1902 Emil Fischer (Germany) sugar and purine syntheses 1903 Svante Arrhenius (Sweden) theory of electrolytic dissociation 1904 William Ramsay (UK) discovery of rare gases in air and their…
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Year Peace Chemistry Physics Physiology or Medicine Literature 1901 J. H. Dunant Frédéric Passy J. H. van't Hoff W. C. Roentgen E. A. von Behring R. F. A. Sully-Prudhomme 1902 élie Ducommun C. A. Gobat Emil Fischer H. A. Lorentz Pieter Zeeman Sir Ronald Ross Theodor Mommsen 1903 Sir William R. …
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US physician and chemist who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 2003 for his research concerning channels in cell membranes and in particular for his discovery of water channels. He shared the award with US physician and molecular biologist Roderick MacKinnon. The transport of salts in and…
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