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Bert Sakmann
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Bert Sakmann was born in 1942. He is a recipient of the Nobel Prize, having received one award. His Erdős number is 6.
His work is included in several collections. These include the Royal Society collection, the Nobel Laureates collection, the Nobel Medicine collection, and the American Academy Arts Sciences collection.
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1942-06-12 ) 12 June 1942 (age 83) , Stuttgart , German Reich
- Awards
- W. Alden Spencer Award (1983) Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize (1986) Louis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine (1988) Harvey Prize (1991) Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine (1991) ForMemRS (1994)
- Institutions
- Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology University College London
- Website
- www .neuro .mpg .de /sakmann
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Nobel Prize
- The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine1991
“for their discoveries concerning the function of single ion channels in cells”
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Bert
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Nazi Germany
- Place of birth
- Stuttgart
- Educated at
- University of Göttingen
- Employer
- Heidelberg University
- Languages spoken
- German
- Academic degree
- doctorate
- Field of work
- neurophysiology
- Image
- Sakmann.jpg
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- date of birth
- 1942-06-12
- Commons category
- Bert Sakmann
- Erdős number
- 6
- name in native language
- Bert Sakmann
- maintained by WikiProject
- WikiProject Mathematics
- P8168
- Bob Johnson
- interested in
- cell physiology
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Encyclopedic overview
Bert Sakmann ( German pronunciation: [ˈbɛʁt ˈzakˌman] ; born 12 June 1942) is a German cell physiologist. He shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Erwin Neher in 1991 for their work on "the function of single ion channels in cells," and the invention of the patch clamp. Bert Sakmann was Professor at Heidelberg University and is an Emeritus Scientific Member of the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research in Heidelberg, Germany. Since 2008 he leads an emeritus research group at the Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology.
Life and career
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