Roger David Kornberg was born on April 24, 1947. He is an American biochemist and a professor in the field of structural biology at Stanford University School of Medicine. In 2006, Kornberg was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his research on how genetic information from DNA is copied into RNA, known as “the molecular basis of eukaryotic transcription.”
Randy Wayne Schekman was born on December 30, 1948. He is an American cell biologist at the University of California, Berkeley. He was the editor-in-chief of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and the editor of the Annual Review of Cell and Developmental Biology.
James Edward Rothman was born on November 3, 1950. He is an American scientist who studies how living things work. At Yale University, he is a professor of biomedical sciences and leads the Department of Cell Biology at Yale School of Medicine.
Richard H. Scheller (born October 30, 1953) was the former chief science officer and leader of therapeutics at 23andMe. He also served as the former executive vice president of research and early development at Genentech.
Thomas Christian Südhof (German pronunciation: [ˈtoːmas ˈzyːtˌhoːf]; born December 22, 1955), ForMemRS, is a German-American biochemist who studies how brain cells communicate. He is now a professor in the school of medicine, in the department of molecular and cellular physiology, and also holds positions by courtesy in neurology, psychiatry, and behavioral sciences at Stanford University. Südhof, along with James Rothman and Randy Schekman, received the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their research on vesicle trafficking.
Robert C. Malenka was born on June 21, 1955. He is a professor in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University.
Susumu Tonegawa (利根川 進, Tonegawa Susumu; born September 5, 1939) is a Japanese scientist who was the only person to receive the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1987. He was honored for discovering V(D)J recombination, a genetic process that creates diversity in antibodies. Although he received the Nobel Prize for his research in immunology, Tonegawa was trained as a molecular biologist.
Hiromu Takahashi (高橋 広夢, Takahashi Hiromu; ring name: 高橋 ヒロム) was born on December 4, 1989. He is a Japanese professional wrestler who is best known for working with New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) for sixteen years. Takahashi began his career with NJPW on August 28, 2010, and worked as a “Young Lion” for three years.
Peter Hegemann (born December 11, 1954) holds the Hertie Senior Research Chair for Neurosciences and is a professor of Experimental Biophysics at the Department of Biology, Faculty of Life Sciences, Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany. He is known for discovering channelrhodopsin, a type of ion channel that opens and closes when light is present, helping cells detect light. This discovery led to the development of optogenetics, a method that uses light to control the activity of specific brain cells.
Ernst Bamberg (born November 9, 1940, in Krefeld) is a German biophysicist and former director of the Department of Biophysical Chemistry at the Max Planck Institute of Biophysics.