Shosaku Numa: Difference between revisions

|death_date = {{d-da|February 15, 1992|February 7, 1929}}

|prizes = {{no wrap|[[Heinrich Wieland Prize]] {{small|(1973)}}<br>[[Asahi Prize]] {{small|(1982)}}<br>[[Japan Academy Prize (academics)|Japan Academy Prize]] {{small|(1985)}}<br/>[[AsahiOtto PrizeWarburg Medal]] {{small|(19821987)}} }}

{{nihongo|'''Shosaku Numa''', [[Fellow of the Royal Society|ForMemRS]]|沼 正作|Numa Shousaku|extra=February 7, 1929 – February 15, 1992}}<ref name="frs">{{citeCite journal doi| last1 = Imura | first1 = H. | doi = 10.1098/rsbm.1995.0019 | title = Shosaku Numa. 7 February 1929-15 February 1992 | journal = [[Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society]] | volume = 41 | pages = 310–326 | year = 1995 | pmid = 11615360| jstor = 770148| s2cid = 43346241 }}</ref> was a [[Japanese people|Japanese]] [[neuroscientist]] known for his pioneerpioneering research on [[Neurotransmittersneurotransmitters]] and [[Ionion channels]], and madefor outstandinghis contributioncontributions to the understanding of molecular mechanismmechanisms of neural signalling.

Numa was born in [[Wakayama, Japan]] and completed his M.D. in 1952 fromat [[Kyoto University]]. He studied at [[Harvard Medical School]] with [[John Lawrence Oncley]] and worked at the [[Max Planck Society]] with [[Feodor Felix Konrad Lynen]], before he became Professor of Medical Chemistry at the Faculty of Medicine, [[Kyoto University]] in 1968. He died of [[colon cancer]] on February 15, 1992, at the age of 63.<ref name="frs"/>

==ContributionContributions==

Numa and co-workers cloned and sequenced the cDNA and delineated the primary structures of different families of [[receptors]] and [[channels]] including a neurotransmitter-gated channel ([[nicotinic acetylcholine receptor]]), voltage-gated channels ([[sodium channel]] and [[calcium channel]]), an intracellular membrane channel ([[calcium-release channel]]), and a G-protein-coupled receptor ([[muscarinic acetylcholine receptor]]).<ref name="doi">{{citeCite journal doi| doi = 10.1016/0968-0004(92)90304-R| title = Shosaku Numa 1927–1992| journal = Trends in Biochemical Sciences| volume = 17| issue = 9| pages = 327–328| year = 1992| last1 = Hayaishi | first1 = O. }}</ref>

For his great achievements, Numa was awarded numerous honours and awards including, most outstandingly, the [[Japan Academy Prize (academics)|Japan Academy Prize]] in 1985. He was elected as a foreign member of [[the Royal Society]] in 1986,<ref name="frs"/> as a member of the [[German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina]] in 1990, and as a foreign associate of the [[National Academy of Sciences]] of the United States of America in 1991. He was selected as a [[Person of Cultural Merit]] by the Government of Japan in 1991.<ref name="doi"/>

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