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Günter Blobel

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Also known as Gunter Blobel

German American biologist (1999 Nobel Prize)

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Günter Blobel was a German individual born on May 21, 1936, who passed away on February 18, 2018. The subject is listed with a female gender designation in certain records. Blobel received one Nobel Prize and was recognized in the Nobel Medicine collection. Additionally, the individual was acknowledged in the American Academy Arts Sciences collection and the Nobel Laureates collection.

The author’s published works include *Harvey Lectures*, *Abstracts of papers presented at the meeting on membrane biogenesis, May 22-May 27, 1979*, and *Introduction to Proteomics*. Records indicate a total of five works, with three specifically listed. The subject has an Erdős number of 5 and is referenced by 554 other encyclopedia articles.

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Person · Open Library

Works
3

Top works

  • Harvey Lectures
  • Abstracts of papers presented at the meeting on membrane biogenesis, May 22-May 27, 1979
  • Introduction to Proteomics

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Type
Person
Gender
Female
Origin
Germany

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Nobel Prize

  • The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine1999

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

Wikidata facts

Instance of
human
Gender
male
Citizenship
United States
Place of birth
Niegosławice
Place of death
New York City
Languages spoken
English language
Academic degree
Doctor of Philosophy
Doctoral advisor
George Emil Palade
Field of work
cell biology
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Commons category
Günter Blobel
date of birth
1936-05-21
Erdős number
5
name in native language
Günter Blobel
date of death
2018-02-18
manner of death
natural causes
cause of death
prostate cancer
ethnic group
German Americans
interested in
biology
Sources (5)

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Encyclopedic overview

Günter Blobel ( German pronunciation: [ˈɡʏntɐ ˈbloːbl̩] ; May 21, 1936 – February 18, 2018) 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.

Education and early life

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