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Günter Blobel

German American biologist · born May 21, 1936 · died 2018

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Günter Blobel 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.

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  1. ~51Received the Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize1987
  2. ~57Received the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research1993
  3. ~63Received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine1999

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