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American biochemist
Richard Priestley Lifton (born 1953) is an American
biochemist and the 11th and current president of
The Rockefeller University.
[1]
Education and career
He earned his B.A. in biological sciences from
Dartmouth College and in 1986 he got his
M.D. and
Ph.D. in biochemistry from
Stanford University.
[2] He trained at
Brigham and Women's Hospital before starting his lab at
Yale in 1993.
[3] He has been awarded the
Wiley Prize in Biomedical Sciences for his discovery of genes that are associated with the regulation of blood pressure.
[4] In 2014 he was awarded the $3 million
Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences for his work.
[5] He has been a
Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) investigator since 1994. He was inducted into the
National Academy of Sciences and
Institute of Medicine, and he is a Fellow of the
American Association for the Advancement of Science.
[6]
In May 2016, Lifton was named the president of
Rockefeller University.
[7] He succeeded
Marc Tessier-Lavigne.
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Mathematics | |
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Fundamental physics |
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Nima Arkani-Hamed,
Alan Guth,
Alexei Kitaev,
Maxim Kontsevich,
Andrei Linde,
Juan Maldacena,
Nathan Seiberg,
Ashoke Sen,
Edward Witten (2012)
- Special:
Stephen Hawking,
Peter Jenni,
Fabiola Gianotti (ATLAS),
Michel Della Negra,
Tejinder Virdee,
Guido Tonelli,
Joseph Incandela (CMS) and
Lyn Evans (LHC) (2013)
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Alexander Polyakov (2013)
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Michael Green and
John Henry Schwarz (2014)
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Saul Perlmutter and members of the
Supernova Cosmology Project;
Brian Schmidt,
Adam Riess and members of the
High-Z Supernova Team (2015)
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Ronald Drever,
Kip Thorne,
Rainer Weiss and contributors to
LIGO project (2016)
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Yifang Wang,
Kam-Biu Luk and the
Daya Bay team,
Atsuto Suzuki and the
KamLAND team,
Kōichirō Nishikawa and the
K2K /
T2K team,
Arthur B. McDonald and the
Sudbury Neutrino Observatory team,
Takaaki Kajita and
Yōichirō Suzuki and the
Super-Kamiokande team (2016)
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Joseph Polchinski,
Andrew Strominger,
Cumrun Vafa (2017)
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Charles L. Bennett,
Gary Hinshaw,
Norman Jarosik,
Lyman Page Jr.,
David Spergel (2018)
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Jocelyn Bell Burnell (2018)
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Charles Kane and
Eugene Mele (2019)
- Special:
Sergio Ferrara,
Daniel Z. Freedman,
Peter van Nieuwenhuizen (2019)
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The Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration (2020)
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Eric Adelberger,
Jens H. Gundlach and
Blayne Heckel (2021)
- Special:
Steven Weinberg (2021)
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Hidetoshi Katori and
Jun Ye (2022)
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Charles H. Bennett,
Gilles Brassard,
David Deutsch,
Peter W. Shor (2023)
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John Cardy and
Alexander Zamolodchikov (2024)
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Life sciences |
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Cornelia Bargmann,
David Botstein,
Lewis C. Cantley,
Hans Clevers,
Titia de Lange,
Napoleone Ferrara,
Eric Lander,
Charles Sawyers,
Robert Weinberg,
Shinya Yamanaka and
Bert Vogelstein (2013)
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James P. Allison,
Mahlon DeLong,
Michael N. Hall,
Robert S. Langer,
Richard P. Lifton and
Alexander Varshavsky (2014)
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Alim Louis Benabid,
Charles David Allis,
Victor Ambros,
Gary Ruvkun,
Jennifer Doudna and
Emmanuelle Charpentier (2015)
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Edward Boyden,
Karl Deisseroth,
John Hardy,
Helen Hobbs and
Svante Pääbo (2016)
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Stephen J. Elledge,
Harry F. Noller,
Roeland Nusse,
Yoshinori Ohsumi,
Huda Zoghbi (2017)
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Joanne Chory,
Peter Walter,
Kazutoshi Mori,
Kim Nasmyth,
Don W. Cleveland (2018)
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C. Frank Bennett and
Adrian R. Krainer,
Angelika Amon,
Xiaowei Zhuang,
Zhijian Chen (2019)
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Jeffrey M. Friedman,
Franz-Ulrich Hartl,
Arthur L. Horwich,
David Julius,
Virginia Man-Yee Lee (2020)
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David Baker,
Catherine Dulac,
Dennis Lo,
Richard J. Youle [
de] (2021)
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Jeffery W. Kelly,
Katalin Karikó,
Drew Weissman,
Shankar Balasubramanian,
David Klenerman and
Pascal Mayer (2022)
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Clifford P. Brangwynne,
Anthony A. Hyman,
Demis Hassabis,
John Jumper,
Emmanuel Mignot,
Masashi Yanagisawa (2023)
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Carl June,
Michel Sadelain,
Sabine Hadida,
Paul Negulescu,
Fredrick Van Goor,
Thomas Gasser,
Ellen Sidransky and
Andrew Singleton (2024)
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