- Douglas L. Coleman
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Douglas L. Coleman (born October 6, 1931) is a scientist at The Jackson Laboratory. His discovery of the hormone leptin and its role in regulating body weight has had a major role in the area of human obesity.
He obtained his BS degree from McMaster University in 1954 and his PhD in Biochemistry from the University of Wisconsin in 1958. He was elected a member of the US National Academy of Sciences in 1998. He won the Shaw Prize in 2009 [1][2] and the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research in 2010 (both jointly with Jeffrey M. Friedman) for their discovery of leptin.
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Shaw Prize laureates Astronomy Jim Peebles (2004) · Geoffrey Marcy / Michel Mayor (2005) · Saul Perlmutter / Adam Riess / Brian P. Schmidt (2006) · Peter Goldreich (2007) · Reinhard Genzel (2008) · Frank Shu (2009) · Charles L. Bennett / Lyman Page / David Spergel (2010) · Enrico Costa / Gerald J. Fishman (2011)
Life science and medicine Stanley Norman Cohen / Herbert Boyer / Kan Yuet-wai / Richard Doll (2004) · Michael Berridge (2005) · Wang Xiaodong (2006) · Robert Lefkowitz (2007) · Ian Wilmut / Keith Campbell / Shinya Yamanaka (2008) · Douglas L. Coleman / Jeffrey M. Friedman (2009) · David Julius (2010) · Jules A. Hoffmann / Ruslan M. Medzhitov / Bruce A. Beutler (2011)
Mathematical science Shiing-Shen Chern (2004) · Andrew Wiles (2005) · David Mumford / Wu Wenjun (2006) · Robert Langlands / Richard Taylor (2007) · Vladimir Arnold / Ludvig Faddeev (2008) · Simon Donaldson / Clifford Taubes (2009) · Jean Bourgain (2010) · Demetrios Christodoulou / Richard S. Hamilton (2011)
Categories:- Canadian scientists
- University of Wisconsin–Madison alumni
- 1931 births
- Living people
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