Bert Sakmann is a German cell physiologist, born in Stuttgart in 1942, who studied medicine in Tübingen, Freiburg, Berlin, Paris and Munich. In 1971 he moved to University College London, where he worked in the Department of Biophysics under Bernard Katz. He was later a professor at Heidelberg University and is an emeritus scientific member of the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research in Heidelberg. With Erwin Neher he shared the 1991 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their work on the function of single ion channels in cells and the invention of the patch clamp. Since 2008 he has led an emeritus research group at the Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology.
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born 12 June 1942
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is a German cell physiologist
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He shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Erwin Neher in 1991
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He shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Erwin Neher in 1991
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is a German cell physiologist
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Since 2008 he leads an emeritus research group at the Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology
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Bert Sakmann was Professor at Heidelberg University
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an emeritus scientific member of the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research in Heidelberg
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he moved to University College London, where he worked in the Department of Biophysics under Bernard Katz
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Since 2008 he leads an emeritus research group at the Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology
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"year": "1942"
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"awardYear": "1991"
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