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Roderick MacKinnon 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 channels. MacKinnon was born in Burlington, Massachusetts and initially attended the University of Massachusetts Boston. MacKinnon then transferred to Brandeis University after one year, and there he received a bachelor's degree in biochemistry in 1978, studying calcium transport through the cell membrane for his honors thesis in Christopher Miller's laboratory. It was also at Brandeis where MacKinnon met his future wife and working-colleague Alice Lee. After receiving his degree from Brandeis, MacKinnon entered medical school at Tufts University. He got his M.D. in 1982 and received training in Internal Medicine at Beth Israel Hospital in Boston. He did not feel satisfied enough with the medical profession, so in 1986 he returned to Christopher Miller's laboratory at Brandeis for postdoctoral studies.
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Linda Gordon is an American historian. She lives in New York City and in Madison Wisconsin. Linda Gordon was born in Chicago but considers Portland,... Oregon, her home town. She graduated from Swarthmore College, and from Yale University with an MA and PhD in Russian History. Her dissertation was published as Cossack Rebellions: Social Turmoil in the Sixteenth-century Ukraine. SUNY Press. 1983. ISBN 978-0-87395-654-3. http://books.google.com/books?id=qq0c9viLrB4C&printsec=frontcover&dq=Linda+Gordon&cd=5#v=onepage&q=&f=false. . She taught at the University of Massachusetts-Boston from 1968 to 1984, and at the University of Wisconsin–Madison from 1984 to 1999. The University of Wisconsin awarded her the university's most prestigious chair professorship, the Vilas Research Chair. Today she is University Professor of the Humanities and professor of history at New York University.. Starting in the 1970s, Gordon’s research and writing examined the historical roots of contemporary social policy debates in the US, particularly as they concern gender and family issues. Her Woman's Body, Woman's Right: the History of Birth Control in America. Viking/Penguin. 1976. ISBN 978-0-14-013127-7.
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