Günter Blobel
German American biologist (1999 Nobel Prize)
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Günter Blobel was a German American biologist who won the Nobel Prize in 1999 for his discoveries about how proteins are directed to specific locations within cells. His work fundamentally advanced our understanding of how cells function at the molecular level, which has important implications for medical research and treating diseases.
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- Rivaroxaban versus Warfarin in Nonvalvular Atrial Fibrillation
· 2011 · cited 7,869x
- Observation of a new boson at a mass of 125 GeV with the CMS experiment at the LHC
· 2012 · cited 6,599x
- Nanotoxicology: An Emerging Discipline Evolving from Studies of Ultrafine Particles
· 2005 · cited 6,457x
- Development of recommendations for SEMG sensors and sensor placement procedures
· 2000 · cited 5,689x
- Surface plasmon resonance sensors: review
· 1999 · cited 4,727x
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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.
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1936 births2018 deaths20th-century American biologists20th-century German biologistsAmerican Nobel laureatesDirectors of NestléFellows of the AACR AcademyForeign members of the Russian Academy of SciencesGerman Nobel laureatesGoethe University Frankfurt alumniHoward Hughes Medical InvestigatorsKnights Commander of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany