Rodbell, Martin (1925-1998)
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Martin Rodbell, PhD., was a biochemist and molecular endocrinologist who shared the 1994 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Alfred G. Gilman for "their discovery of G-proteins and the role of these proteins in signal transduction in cells."
In a series of pioneering experiments studying the activity of hormones as substances, Rodbell and his colleagues discovered not only how light and odors are perceived, but also how signals travel between neurons in the brain and how some diseases come to affect the body as a whole.