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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 107,510 page views. His biography is available in 44 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 41 in 2019). Bert Sakmann is the 165th most popular biologist (up from 188th in 2019), the 1,302nd most popular biography from Germany (up from 1,567th in 2019) and the 19th most popular German Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Bert Sakmann ranks 165 out of 841. Before him are Johan Christian Fabricius, Paul Greengard, Anna Atkins, Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard, Peter Medawar, and Erwin Neher. After him are César Milstein, Renato Dulbecco, Louis Agassiz, Michael Houghton, Temple Grandin, and John B. Calhoun.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1942, Bert Sakmann ranks 114. Before him are Gottfried John, Amine Gemayel, Michael York, Margarethe von Trotta, Prince Michael of Kent, and Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard. After him are László Sólyom, Anita Pallenberg, Vladimir Bukovsky, Barry Levinson, Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle, and Sixto Rodriguez.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Bert Sakmann ranks 1,302 out of 6,142. Before him are Franz Walter Stahlecker (1900), Bernhard Rust (1883), Alfred Einstein (1880), Princess Mary Adelaide of Cambridge (1833), Friedrich Kalkbrenner (1784), and Friedrich August Wolf (1759). After him are Maximilian de Beauharnais, 3rd Duke of Leuchtenberg (1817), Princess Margaretha of Saxony (1840), Reinhard Genzel (1952), Mesut Özil (1988), Ludwig Quidde (1858), and Prince Ferdinand of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1785).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Germany

Among biologists born in Germany, Bert Sakmann ranks 19. Before him are Georg Wilhelm Steller (1709), Johann Christian Daniel von Schreber (1739), Walther Flemming (1843), Theodor Escherich (1857), Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard (1942), and Erwin Neher (1944). After him are Hans Driesch (1867), Johann Friedrich Gmelin (1748), Friedrich Parrot (1791), Johann Matthäus Bechstein (1757), Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg (1795), and Carl Gustav Carus (1789).

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