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Bert Sakmann
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Bert Sakmann

German biologist and physician · born June 12, 1942

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Bert Sakmann is a German cell physiologist. He shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Erwin Neher in 1991 for their work on "the function of single ion channels in cells," and the invention of the patch clamp.

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  1. ~44Received the Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize1986
  2. ~49Received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine1991

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