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• The Nobel Prize and Hormones: A Knowledge Revolution
• The First Step: Isolating Single Cells
• Robdell's Inspiration: Sutherland's Second Messenger
• A New Model for Message Transmission: Discovering the Role of GTP
• A Far-ranging Impact: Cholera, Inherited Night Blindness, McCune Albrights Syndrome
• The 1994 Nobel Prize
• Martin Rodbell, 1925-1998
• Acknowledgement

In 1994, the Nobel Prize in Medicine was awarded jointly to Rodbell and Alfred G. Gilman of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center for the discovery of G-proteins and their role in signal transduction in cells. Gilman provided a critical piece of the puzzle. He isolated the transducer molecules and defined their structure. Because they were proteins that bind GTP, Gilman called them G-proteins.

 

"Humans must understand how important it is to think, to seek out [knowledge] and understand what nature is doing." -- Martin Rodbell

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