Robert Lefkowitz

Robert Joseph Lefkowitz is an American physician and biochemist. He is best known for his discoveries that reveal the inner workings of an important family G protein-coupled receptors, for which he was awarded the 2012 Nobel Prize for Chemistry with Brian Kobilka. He is currently an Investigator with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute as well as a James B. Duke Professor of Medicine and Professor of Biochemistry and Chemistry at Duke University.

15 April 1943

Born on the same birth date (15 April 1943): Hugh Thompson Jr. • Pınar Kür • Veronica Linklater, Baroness Linklater of Butterstone

Born on the same birth day (15 April): Abigail Mejia • Alberto Breccia • Alex Crawford • Arshile Gorky • Brahim Lahlafi • Claudius Salmasius • Dudu Cearense • Hermann Grassmann • Hugh Thompson Jr. • Jason Bonsignore • Johannes Stark • John Lloyd (journalist) • Joseph E. Seagram • Jurriaan Schrofer • Kenneth Lay • Raymond Poulidor • Suleiman II of the Ottoman Empire • Veronica Linklater, Baroness Linklater of Butterstone • W. D. Ross

Born in the same month (April 1943): Alan Beith • Alan Jones (radio broadcaster) • Aryeh Bibi • Chris Orr (artist) • Dafydd Wigley • Duane Allen • Fighting Harada • Harley Race • Michael Boyce, Baron Boyce • Miet Smet • Miller Farr • Philip Norman (author) • Pınar Kür • Richard Sterban • Roger Cook (journalist) • Terry Knight