![Robert J. Lefkowitz, MD](/sites/default/files/styles/square_crop_scale/public/2021-04/lefkowitz.robert.jpg?h=b647dae3&itok=ZHh7d4ha)
2012 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry
On Wednesday, October 10, 2012, The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced that Robert Lefkowitz, MD, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) investigator at Duke University, and Brian K. Kobilka of Stanford University were the recipients of the 2012 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for studies of G-protein-coupled receptors.
Dr. Lefkowitz, a professor in the Department of Medicine, joined Duke in 1977. He is a James B. Duke Professor of Medicine and a member of the Duke Cancer Institute.
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- Speech for the Chemistry Prize
- Granting of the Chemistry Prize
- Dr. Lefkowitz's Nobel Lecture in Chemistry
![Lefkowitz receiving his award from the King of Sweden](/sites/default/files/2021-04/lefkowitz_king_sweden.jpg)