Richard Axel
American molecular biologist
Richard Axel (born July 2, 1946 in Brooklyn, New York City)[1] is an American neuroscientist. He won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2004 for working on the olfactory receptors which he shared with Linda B. Buck.
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References
change- ↑ "Richard Axel - Autobiography". nobelprize.org. 2011. Retrieved 27 February 2011.