![]() |
Michael Brown ForMemRS | |
---|---|
![]() | |
Born | Michael Stuart Brown April 13, 1941 Brooklyn, New York, U.S. |
Education | |
Known for | Regulation of cholesterol metabolism |
Spouse |
Alice Lapin (m. 1964) |
Children | two[citation needed] |
Awards |
|
Scientific career | |
Fields | Biology |
Website | profiles |
Michael Stuart Brown ForMemRS NAS AAA&S APS (born April 13, 1941) is an American geneticist and Nobel laureate. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Joseph L. Goldstein in 1985 for describing the regulation of cholesterol metabolism.[1][2][3][4]