Georg Nagel is a German biophysicist, born in 1953, who is a professor at the Department for Neurophysiology at the University of Würzburg. He studied biology and biophysics at the University of Konstanz, took his doctorate at the University of Frankfurt in 1988 at the Max Planck Institute of Biophysics, and worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Yale and Rockefeller Universities. From 1992 to 2004 he led a research group at the Max Planck Institute of Biophysics. With Peter Hegemann he is credited with discovering channelrhodopsins, which opened the field of optogenetics, and in 2026 the two shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Karl Deisseroth.
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Georg Nagel (born 24 August 1953)
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His research is focused on microbial photoreceptors and the development of optogenetic tools
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His research is focused on microbial photoreceptors and the development of optogenetic tools
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In 2026, he was jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
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is a German biophysicist
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is a German biophysicist and professor at the Department for Neurophysiology
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professor at the Department for Neurophysiology at the University of Würzburg
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headed an independent research group in the Department of Biophysical Chemistry at the Max Planck Institute of Biophysics in Frankfurt
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His research is focused on microbial photoreceptors and the development of optogenetic tools
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"awardYear": "2026"
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