Peter Agre

American chemist, recipient of Nobel Prize in Chemistry

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Peter Agre is an American chemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his scientific discoveries. His work is significant because it advanced our understanding of fundamental chemical and biological processes that are important to human health and medicine.

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Can Scientists Succeed Where Politicians Fail?
Red Blood Cell Membranes : Structure : Function

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Cutoff criteria for fit indexes in covariance structure analysis: Conventional criteria versus new alternatives
· 1999 · cited 85,069x
A new method of classifying prognostic comorbidity in longitudinal studies: Development and validation
· 1987 · cited 42,237x
QIIME allows analysis of high-throughput community sequencing data
· 2010 · cited 30,751x
RoB 2: a revised tool for assessing risk of bias in randomised trials
· 2019 · cited 23,846x
<i>PHENIX</i>: a comprehensive Python-based system for macromolecular structure solution
· 2010 · cited 23,324x

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“The need for general scientific understanding by the public has never been larger, and the penalty for scientific illiteracy never harsher… Lack of scientific fundamentals causes people to make foolish decisions about issues such as the toxicity of chemicals, the efficacy of medicines, the changes in the global climate.”
“Our single greatest defense against scientific ignorance is education, and early in the life of every scientist, the child's first interest was sparked by a teacher.”

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date of birth: 1949-01-30
name in native language: Peter Agre

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Peter Agre (/ˈɑːɡriː/; born January 30, 1949) is a Nobel Laureate American physician, molecular biologist, Bloomberg Distinguished Professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, and director of the Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute. In 2003, Agre and Roderick MacKinnon shared the 2003 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for "discoveries concerning channels in cell membranes." Agre was recognized for his discovery of aquaporin water channels. Aquaporins are water-channel proteins that move water molecules through the cell membrane. In 2009, Agre was elected president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and became active in science diplomacy.

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