Günter Blobel - Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — 1999
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Günter Blobel

Prize
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — 1999
for the discovery that proteins have intrinsic signals that govern their transport and localization in the cell
Citizenship
Nazi Germany Nazi Germany Germany Germany United States United States
Languages
English, German
date of birth
5/21/1936
place of birth
Niegosławice
date of death
2/18/2018
place of death
New York City
Lived
81 years

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member of
  • National Academy of Sciences
    • start time: 1983
  • Academia Europaea
    • start time: 1992
  • Pontifical Academy of Sciences
    • start time: 2001
  • Russian Academy of Sciences
    • start time: 2008
  • American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
  • Atlantik-Brücke
  • Romanian Academy
  • European Molecular Biology Organization
field of work
  • biology
  • cell biology
  • biochemistry
  • molecular chemistry
occupation
  • university teacher
  • biochemist
  • cell biologist
  • physician
  • molecular biologist
educated at
  • Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
  • Goethe University Frankfurt
  • University of Tübingen
  • University of Freiburg
  • Kiel University
  • University of Wisconsin–Madison
doctoral student
  • Peter Walter
  • David J. Anderson
employer
  • The Rockefeller University
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