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Günter Blobel was born on May 21, 1936, and died on February 18, 2018. He held an Erdős number of 5.
Blobel received one Nobel Prize. His work is recognized in the Nobel Laureates collection, the Nobel Medicine collection, and the American Academy Arts Sciences collection.
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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
- Educated at
- Goethe University Frankfurt
- Employer
- The Rockefeller University
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Academic degree
- Doctor of Philosophy
- Doctoral advisor
- George Emil Palade
- Field of work
- cell biology
- Image
- Gunter Blobel 2008 1.JPG
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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
- P8168
- BogoMips
- interested in
- biology
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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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