Erwin Neher

Erwin Neher (born on March 20th 1944 with Landsberg amndt Lech, in Bavaria), is a German chemist. He jointly accepted with Bert Sakmann the Nobel Prize of physiology or medicine in 1991 for their discoveries of the functions of the ionic channels isolated in the cells. Two scientists being at the origin of the development of the technique of the Patch-clamp, which was at the base of their discoveries. Professor Neher is director of the Institut Max-Planck of chemistry biophysics of Göttingen and director of the membrane department of biophysics.

Biography

Erwin Neher is the son of Franz Xaver Neher, an employee of a company of dairy products and Elisabeth Neher, a teacher of formation. He attended the college of Maristen-Schulbrüder with Mindelheim. Very early it was interested in the Cybernétique. He studied physics as from 1963 with the technological Université of Munich, ambitionnant to become biophysicist, and as from 1966 with the Université of Wisconsin thanks to a grant of the Programme Fulbright.

He carried out a thesis at the Max-Planck institute of Psychiatrie of Munich and obtained his doctorate in 1970, in the laboratory where he met Bert Sakmann. From 1976, Erwin Neher and Bert Sakmann had jointly a laboratory for young researchers ( Young Investigator Laboratory ), in whom it continued their research.

Rewards and distinctions

External bonds

  • Autobiography on the official site of the Nobel Prize

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