Harvard alumnus wins share of medicine Nobel
James E. Rothman, a 1976 Harvard alumnus, won a share of the 2013 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine Monday for work illuminating the internal machinery that cells use to transport molecules. The Yale University professor split the award with Randy Schekman of the University of California at Berkeley and Thomas Südhof of Stanford University. Rothman, a native of Haverhill, earned his Ph.D. in medical sciences, in a degree program jointly offered by the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and Harvard Medical School. The award, announced early Monday by the Karolinska Institutet in Sweden, was given to the trio “for their discoveries of machinery regulating vesicle traffic, a major transport system in our cells,” according to the citation. The Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine is the first of the 2013 prizes to be announced this month. The physics, chemistry, literature, and peace prizes will be announced this week. The Sveriges Riksbank Prize...