Bert Sakmann

Bert Sakmann (born on June 12th 1942 with Stuttgart) is a German doctor. He jointly accepted with Erwin Neher the Nobel Prize of medicine, for the development of the technique of the Patch-clamp.

Bert Sackmann is professor and director of the cellular department of physiology to the Max-Planck-Institute for the medical research of Heidelberg.

Biography

It obtained its baccalaureat in 1961 with the Wagenburg college of Stuttgart. Then he studied medicine until 1967 at the university of Tübingen, Freiburg, Berlin, Paris and Munich. After having obtained its examinations of medicine to the University Louis-and-Maximilien Munich, he was doctor attending the university of Munich and researcher attending the institute max Planck for the Psychiatrie of Munich, in the department of Neurophysiologie near Otto Detlev Creutzfeldt. In 1971, it left to the department Biophysique Bernard Katz the University College London. In 1974, it finished its thesis of medicine to the Université of Göttingen having the title: " Electrophysiology of the adaptation to the light in the retina of the chats".

In 1974, it found Otto Creutzfeldt in the Max-Planck Institut for chemistry biophysics in Göttingen. From 1979, he was permanent researcher in the department of biology of the Membrane S.

In 1982, it obtained its enabling at the medical college of the university of Göttingen and became director in 1985 of the cellular department of physiology in the Max-Planck Institut of chemistry biophysics in Göttingen. In 1987, it obtained a post of professor at the medical college of the university of Göttingen. It accepted the same year the Prix Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz decreed by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft .

In 1988, it became corresponding Academy of Science of Bavaria, director of the cellular department of physiology in the Max-Planck Institut for the medical research of Heidelberg. And in 1990, it obtained a post office at the medical college of the Université of Heidelberg. One year later, it was named professor with the faculty of biology of the same university.

In 1991, it accepted jointly with Erwin Neher, with which it had worked in Göttingen, the Nobel Prize of medicine for their development of a method giving a direct proof of the ionic channels in the cellular membranes and for the study of the transmission of the signals inside the cells and between the cells.

It created the foundation Bert Sakmann.

In 1992, he became member corresponding of the Academy of Science of Göttingen. And in 1999, he was prize winner of the price Carl Zeiss .

Sources

External bonds

cellular Department of physiology of the Max_Planck institute for the medical research
official site of the Nobel Prize

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