Joseph L. Goldstein
Joseph Leonard Goldstein (born April 18, 1940 in Sumter , South Carolina , USA ) is an American geneticist and Nobel Prize winner for medicine . He received it with Michael S. Brown "for their discoveries regarding the regulation of the cholesterol metabolism"
Life
Joseph L. Goldstein studied chemistry at Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia ( Bachelor in 1962) and medicine at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center with an MD degree in 1966. From 1966 to 1968 he worked as a research scientist at the Massachusetts General Hospiral in Boston and befriended Michael S. Brown during this time. At the Southwestern Medical Center, where Goldstein is now a professor, he carried out the work with Brown in the 1970s for which both were honored with the Nobel Prize in 1985.
Honors, prizes and memberships (selection)
- 1976: Pfizer Award in Enzyme Chemistry
- 1978: Passano Award
- 1979: Richard Lounsbery Award
- 1980: Admission to the National Academy of Sciences
- 1981: Gairdner Foundation International Award
- 1981: Admission to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- 1984: Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize
- 1985: Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research
- 1985: William Allan Award
- 1985: Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- 1987: Keith R. Porter Lecture
- 1987: Admission to the American Philosophical Society
- 1988: National Medal of Science
- 1991: Admission to the Royal Society
- 1999: Warren Alpert Foundation Prize
- 2002: George M. Kober Medal
- 2003: Albany Medical Center Prize
- 2016: Rolf Luft Award
literature
- Gisela Baumgart: Goldstein, Joseph. In: Werner E. Gerabek , Bernhard D. Haage, Gundolf Keil , Wolfgang Wegner (eds.): Enzyklopädie Medizingeschichte. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2005, ISBN 3-11-015714-4 , p. 500 f.
Web links
- Information from the Nobel Foundation on the 1985 award ceremony for Joseph Leonard Goldstein (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ for their discoveries concerning the regulation of cholesterol metabolism , Nobel Prize laudation
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Goldstein, Joseph L. |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Goldstein, Joseph Leonard |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American geneticist |
DATE OF BIRTH | April 18, 1940 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Sumter , South Carolina , USA |