Editing Martin Rodbell (section)

{{short description|American biochemist}}
{{citation style|date=January 2010}}
{{Infobox scientist
| name              = Martin Rodbell
| image             = Rodbell, Martin (1925-1998).jpg
| image_size        = 200px
| caption           = Rodbell in 1994
| birth_date        = {{birth date |1925|12|1}}
| birth_place       = [[Baltimore]], [[Maryland]], U.S.
| death_date        = {{death date and age |1998|12|7|1925|12|1}}
| death_place       = [[Chapel Hill, North Carolina]], U.S.
| nationality       = American
| field             = [[Biochemist]]
| work_institution  = [[National Institute of Health]]<br />[[Duke University]]<br />[[University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill]]
| alma_mater        = [[Johns Hopkins University]]<br />[[University of Washington]]
| doctoral_advisor  =
| doctoral_students = 
| known_for         = [[G-proteins]] <br /> [[signal transduction]]
| societies         = 
| prizes            = [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] (1994)<br /> [[Gairdner Foundation International Award]] (1984) <br /> [[Richard Lounsbery Award]] (1987)
| handedness        = 
| spouse            = {{marriage|[[Barbara Ledermann|Barbara Charlotte Ledermann]]|1950}}
| children = 4
| relatives         = [[Sanne Ledermann]] (sister-in-law) 
}}
'''Martin Rodbell''' (December 1, 1925<ref name="nobelprize">{{cite web|url=https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1994/rodbell-autobio.html|title=Martin Rodbell - Biographical|publisher=nobelprize.org|access-date=2015-05-15}}</ref> – December 7, 1998) was an American [[biochemist]] and [[molecular]] [[endocrinologist]] who is best known for his discovery of [[G-protein]]s. He 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."