Günter Blobel

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German-American biologist

Günter Blobel 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. Wikipedia

Born: May 21, 1936, Niegosławice, Poland

Died: February 18, 2018 (age 81 years)

Spouse: Laura Maioglio (m. 1976–2018)

Awards: Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize, and more

Education: University of Wisconsin-Madison, Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, and University of Kiel

Siblings: Ruth Blobel

Doctoral students: Peter Walter