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Erwin Neher

1944 - Today

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Erwin Neher (German pronunciation: [ˈɛʁviːn ˈneːɐ] ; ; born 20 March 1944) is a German biophysicist, specializing in the field of cell physiology. For significant contribution in the field, in 1991 he was awarded, along with Bert Sakmann, the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for "their discoveries concerning the function of single ion channels in cells". Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Erwin Neher is the 99th most popular biologist (up from 130th in 2019), the 680th most popular biography from Germany (up from 1,027th in 2019) and the 13th most popular German Biologist. Learn more about Erwin Neher's academic impact at Rankless.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Erwin Neher ranks 99 out of 1,097. Before him are Charles Lucien Bonaparte, Philip Sclater, Aaron Ciechanover, Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard, Pierre André Latreille, and Nikolai Vavilov. After him are Jan Evangelista Purkyně, Janaki Ammal, Ulisse Aldrovandi, Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg, Georges J. F. Köhler, and Philip Miller.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1944, Erwin Neher ranks 56. Before him are G. W. Bailey, Ronnie Peterson, Makoto Kobayashi, Robert Kardashian, Nick Mason, and George Graham. After him are Jean-Pierre Léaud, Claudia Mori, Gennady Zyuganov, Rajiv Gandhi, Abdul Hamid, and Harold Ramis.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Erwin Neher ranks 680 out of 7,253. Before him are Klaus Fuchs (1911), Karl Anton, Prince of Hohenzollern (1811), Max Reger (1873), Wilhelm Burgdorf (1895), Max Wolf (1863), and Princess Caroline of Great Britain (1713). After him are Felix Hoffmann (1868), Franz Xaver Winterhalter (1805), Karl Wolff (1900), Ottmar Hitzfeld (1949), Dietrich Eckart (1868), and Oskar Dirlewanger (1895).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Germany

Among biologists born in Germany, Erwin Neher ranks 13. Before him are Matthias Jakob Schleiden (1804), Hans Spemann (1869), August Weismann (1834), Katherine Oppenheimer (1910), Ernst Mayr (1904), and Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard (1942). After him are Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg (1795), Georges J. F. Köhler (1946), Gotthelf Fischer von Waldheim (1771), Johann Friedrich Gmelin (1748), Bernard Katz (1911), and Georg Wilhelm Steller (1709).

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