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{{Short description|American biophysicist, neuroscientist, and businessman (born 1956)}}
{{Infobox scientist
| name              = Roderick MacKinnon
| image             = Roderick MacKinnon, M.D. (cropped).jpg
| caption           = MacKinnon in 2014
| birth_date        = {{birth date and age|1956|02|19}}
| birth_place       = [[Burlington, Massachusetts]], [[United States|U.S.]]
| nationality       = American
| spouse            = [[Jue Chen (scientist)|Jue Chen]] (2017–)
| field             = [[Chemistry]]
| workplaces        = {{plainlist|
*[[Cornell University]]
*[[Harvard University]]
*[[The Rockefeller University]]
}}
| alma_mater        = {{plainlist|
*[[Brandeis University]] ([[B. A.|BA]])
*[[Tufts University School of Medicine|Tufts University]] ([[M. D.|MD]])
}}
| doctoral_advisor  = 
| doctoral_students = 
| known_for         = Potassium Channel Structure
| prizes            = {{plainlist|
*[[Newcomb Cleveland Prize]] {{small|(1997)}}
*[[Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research]] {{small|(1999)}}
*[[Perl-UNC Prize]] {{small|(2001)}}
*[[Nobel Prize in Chemistry]] {{small|(2003)}}
*[[Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize]] {{small|(2003)}}
*[[Bijvoet Center for Biomolecular Research|Bijvoet Medal]] {{small|(2004)}}
}}
}}

'''Roderick MacKinnon''' (born February 19, 1956<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|date=2013-02-19|title=Roderick MacKinnon – pioneer in ion channels in cell membranes|url=https://www.worldofchemicals.com/173/chemistry-articles/roderick-mackinnon-pioneer-in-ion-channels-in-cell-membranes.html|access-date=2020-08-06|website=worldofchemicals.com|language=en-US}}</ref>) is an American biophysicist, neuroscientist, and businessman. He is a professor of molecular neurobiology and [[biophysics]] at [[Rockefeller University]] who won the [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry]] together with [[Peter Agre]] in 2003 for his work on the structure and operation of [[ion channel]]s.<ref name="bnl">{{cite news|url=http://www.bnl.gov/bnlweb/pubaf/pr/2003/bnlip100803.htm|title=2003 Nobel Prize in Chemistry Awarded to Researcher Roderick MacKinnon|date=October 8, 2003|publisher=Brookhaven National Labs|access-date=11 February 2010}}</ref><ref name="rock">{{cite web|url=https://www.rockefeller.edu/news/3783-nobel-prize-honors-rockefeller-university-scientist-roderick-mackinnon-for-revealing-process-of-electrical-signaling-in-humans-and-other-living-organisms/|title=Nobel Prize honors Rockefeller University scientist Roderick MacKinnon for revealing process of electrical signaling in humans and other living organisms|date=October 8, 2003|publisher=The Rockefeller University|access-date=20 April 2018}}</ref><ref name="pmid11385491">{{cite journal |author=Birmingham K |title=Rod MacKinnon |journal=Nat. Med. |volume=7 |issue=6 |pages=648 |date=June 2001 |pmid=11385491 |doi=10.1038/89005 |s2cid=21231263 |doi-access=free }}</ref>