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. The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2013, announced October 7, 2013. James E. Rothman, Randy W. Schekman, and Thomas C. Südhof, “for their discoveries of machinery regulating vesicle traffic, a major transport system in our cells”. James E. Rothman: born 1950, Haverhill, MA, USA. Randy W. Schekman: born 1948, St. Paul, MN, USA. Thomas C. Südhof: born 1955, Göttingen, Germany. Wiki link Wiki link Wiki link Data: the Nobel Foundation (CC0).