James Rothman Quotes
The truth is that anyone, almost anyone, who receives the Nobel Prize has some indirect knowledge of one sort or another that they may be a candidate.
Hathaway, Bill. "Yale's James Rothman shares 2013 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine." YaleNews, Yale University, 7 Oct. 2013.
When accepting the prize and giving her Nobel Speech, she did not wear a hijab – the traditional headscarf. Conservative force in Iran were outraged and the President kept a low profile and did not make an immediate statement using this absurd statement to explain his silence. However when the furor died down, he then publicly took a different stance – See {615097} . These two quotations together illustrate the flip-flopping that politicians often resort to when they have a seriously divided constituency and they are trying to unify or at least not alienate one or the other side.
James Edward Rothman is an American biochemist. He is the Fergus F. Wallace Professor of Biomedical Sciences at Yale University, the Chairman of the Department of Cell Biology at Yale School of Medicine, and the Director of the Nanobiology Institute at the Yale West Campus. Rothman also concurrently serves as adjunct professor of physiology and cellular biophysics at Columbia University and a research professor at the UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, University College London. Rothman was awarded the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, for his work on vesicle trafficking (shared with Randy Schekman and Thomas C. Südhof). He received many other honors including the King Faisal International Prize in 1996, the Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize from Columbia University and the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research both in 2002.
