Günter Blobel

Günter Blobel, Nobel Laureate

Born: 1936-05-21 in Waltersdorf, Germany (now Niegoslawice, Poland)

Gender: male

Field: German American biologist (1936–2018; Nobel Prize 1999)

Biography

Günter Blobel was a Silesian German and American biologist and 1999 Nobel Prize laureate in Physiology for the discovery that proteins have intrinsic signals that govern their transport and localization in the cell.

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Nobel Prize Details

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1999

Awarded on: 1999-10-11

"for the discovery that proteins have intrinsic signals that govern their transport and localization in the cell"

Affiliations:

  • Rockefeller University – New York, NY, USA
  • Howard Hughes Medical Institute – USA
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