Thomas C. Südhof, German-American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
Thomas Christian Südhof (German pronunciation: [ˈtoːmas ˈzyːtˌhoːf] (listen); born December 22, 1955), ForMemRS, is a German-American biochemist known for his study of synaptic transmission. Currently, he is a professor in the School of Medicine in the Department of Molecular and Cellular Physiology, and by courtesy in Neurology, and in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University.Südhof, James Rothman and Randy Schekman are the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureates for their work on vesicle trafficking.