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Günter Blobel

1936 - 2018

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Günter Blobel is the 71st most popular biologist (up from 97th in 2019), the 103rd most popular biography from Poland (up from 180th in 2019) and the most popular Polish Biologist. Learn more about Günter Blobel's academic impact at Rankless.

Günter Blobel is a German-born American scientist who won the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1999 for his discovery of the role of protein in the cell membrane.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Günter Blobel ranks 71 out of 1,097. Before him are Hugo de Vries, Augustin Pyramus de Candolle, Hugo Theorell, Dian Fossey, George Shaw, and Adelbert von Chamisso. After him are Antoine Laurent de Jussieu, Elizabeth Blackburn, Georg Forster, Alexander Oparin, Michael Houghton, and Max Theiler.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1936, Günter Blobel ranks 32. Before him are David Carradine, Barack Obama Sr., Virna Lisi, Ursula Andress, Richard Bach, and Dennis Hopper. After him are Uwe Seeler, Gerhard Ertl, Robert Downey Sr., Georges Perec, Wilt Chamberlain, and Jim Clark. Among people deceased in 2018, Günter Blobel ranks 30. Before him are Philip Roth, France Gall, Jens Christian Skou, Lys Assia, Richard E. Taylor, and Burton Richter. After him are Avicii, Paul Bocuse, Billy Graham, Paul D. Boyer, Peter Carington, 6th Baron Carrington, and Roy J. Glauber.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Günter Blobel ranks 103 out of 1,694. Before him are Józef Gosławski (1908), Leopold Kronecker (1823), Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein (1858), Bolesław I the Brave (967), Norbert Elias (1897), and Egon Krenz (1937). After him are Osip Mandelstam (1891), Catherine Jagiellon (1526), Marie Walewska (1786), Georg Forster (1754), Henryk Wieniawski (1835), and Dziga Vertov (1896).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Poland

Among biologists born in Poland, Günter Blobel ranks 1. After him are Georg Forster (1754), Ferdinand Cohn (1828), Adolf Engler (1844), C. L. Gloger (1803), Johann Reinhold Forster (1729), Julius von Sachs (1832), Johannes Thiele (1860), Martin Rathke (1793), Władysław Taczanowski (1819), Gustav Radde (1831), and Michael Sela (1924).

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