Dr. Randy Shekman is a 70-year-old cell biologist who received a Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 2013. Schekman won the prestigious award jointly with researchers James Rothman (also a Jew) and Thomas C. Südhof for their “discoveries of machinery regulating vesicle traffic, a major transport system in our cells.” Shekman was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1992. He is on the faculty of the University of California, Berkeley.
Quotes: “I got into science because I thought that, with inspiration and hard work, I could figure out how life works.” | “The night before the Nobel announcement every year, I’ve gone to bed feeling quite anxious. I was optimistic, and also I knew it might never happen.”
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Watch a press conference with Dr. Schekman right after he won the Nobel Prize [15:OO]. Note: Schekman begins to speak at 6:35. >>
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