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Bert Sakmann

1942 - Today

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Bert Sakmann (German pronunciation: [ˈbɛʁt ˈzakˌman] ; born 12 June 1942) 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. Bert Sakmann was Professor at Heidelberg University and is an Emeritus Scientific Member of the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research in Heidelberg, Germany. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Bert Sakmann has received more than 115,553 page views. His biography is available in 45 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 44 in 2019). Bert Sakmann is the 135th most popular biologist (up from 164th in 2019), the 1,052nd most popular biography from Germany (up from 1,302nd in 2019) and the 19th most popular German Biologist.

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  • 45

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 12.84

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  • 2.54

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Bert Sakmann ranks 135 out of 1,097. Before him are Gaspard Bauhin, Erwin Neher, Antoine-Augustin Parmentier, Giovanni Sartori, Elias Magnus Fries, and E. O. Wilson. After him are Gerald Edelman, Tomas Lindahl, John Ray, Carl Peter Thunberg, Hamilton O. Smith, and Mario Capecchi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1942, Bert Sakmann ranks 91. Before him are Valeri Polyakov, George Jung, Donna Leon, Maria Kaczyńska, Amine Gemayel, and Pál Schmitt. After him are Carlos Monzón, Michel Fourniret, Péter Medgyessy, Rose Francine Rogombé, Milan Milutinović, and Michael York.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Bert Sakmann ranks 1,052 out of 7,253. Before him are Ernst Barlach (1870), Dagmar of Bohemia (1186), Johann Wilhelm, Elector Palatine (1658), Erich Kempka (1910), Carsten Niebuhr (1733), and Manfred Rommel (1928). After him are Carl Friedrich Abel (1723), Wilhelmine of Prussia, Margravine of Brandenburg-Bayreuth (1709), Michel Bréal (1832), Princess Augusta of Saxe-Gotha (1719), Hanns Eisler (1898), and Dorothea of Saxe-Lauenburg (1511).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Germany

Among biologists born in Germany, Bert Sakmann ranks 19. Before him are Otto Wilhelm Hermann von Abich (1806), Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard (1942), Johann Friedrich Gmelin (1748), Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg (1795), August Grisebach (1814), and Erwin Neher (1944). After him are Walther Flemming (1843), Julius Richard Petri (1852), Johann Christian Daniel von Schreber (1739), Georges J. F. Köhler (1946), Theodor Escherich (1857), and Georg Wilhelm Steller (1709).

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