Erwin Neher

Erwin Neher

German biophysicist and Nobel laureate

82 years oldPiscesNazi Germany

Biography

Erwin Neher (German pronunciation: [ˈɛʁviːn ˈneːɐ] ; ; born 20 March 1944) is a German biophysicist, specializing in the field of cell physiology. For significant contribution in the field, in 1991 he was awarded, along with Bert Sakmann, the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for "their discoveries concerning the function of single ion channels in cells".

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Employers / organisations

  • University of Göttingen

Family

Awards & honours (21)

  • Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts order
  • Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
  • Great Cross with Star and Sash of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
  • Carus medal
  • Canada Gairdner International Award
  • Adolf Fick Prize
  • Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize
  • Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize
  • Feldberg Foundation Prize
  • Sharpey-Schafer Lecture and Prize
  • Ernst Hellmut Vits Award
  • Bristol-Myers Squibb Award for Distinguished Achievement in Neuroscience Research
  • W. Alden Spencer Award
  • honorary doctor of the University of Alicante
  • honorary doctor of Tel Aviv University
  • honorary doctor of the Huazhong University of Science and Technology
  • Foreign Member of the Royal Society
  • Ralph W. Gerard Prize
  • honorary doctorate of Hasselt University
  • Fulbright Scholarship
  • Lower Saxony State Prize

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Erwin Neher was born on March 20, 1944.
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Erwin Neher was born in Landsberg am Lech.
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Erwin Neher's zodiac sign is Pisces.
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Erwin Neher is a citizen of Nazi Germany, Germany.
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Erwin Neher is known as biophysicist, university teacher, chemist, physician.
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