BIOLOGIST

Erwin Neher

1944 - Today

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Erwin Neher (German pronunciation: [ˈɛʁviːn ˈneːɐ] ; ; born 20 March 1944) is a German biophysicist, specializing in the field of cell physiology. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Erwin Neher has received more than 136,258 page views. His biography is available in 49 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 47 in 2019). Erwin Neher is the 130th most popular biologist (up from 163rd in 2019), the 1,027th most popular biography from Germany (up from 1,295th in 2019) and the 18th most popular German Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Erwin Neher ranks 130 out of 1,097Before him are Ludwig von Bertalanffy, Othenio Abel, Charles Scott Sherrington, August Grisebach, Christiaan Hendrik Persoon, and Gaspard Bauhin. After him are Antoine-Augustin Parmentier, Giovanni Sartori, Elias Magnus Fries, E. O. Wilson, Bert Sakmann, and Gerald Edelman.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1944, Erwin Neher ranks 89Before him are Andrew S. Tanenbaum, Antonio Damasio, Coluche, Bernard Hill, Ian McDiarmid, and Donna Haraway. After him are Karin Schubert, Rolf M. Zinkernagel, Mairead Maguire, Bernard Cornwell, Tahar Ben Jelloun, and Nana Akufo-Addo.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Erwin Neher ranks 1,027 out of 7,253Before him are Charles De Coster (1827), Christian Wirth (1885), Karl Bühler (1879), Franz Rosenzweig (1886), Günther Lütjens (1889), and Beate Klarsfeld (1939). After him are Carl von Linde (1842), Friedrich Jeckeln (1895), Princess Anna Sophie of Denmark (1647), August Neidhardt von Gneisenau (1760), Johann Christoph Bach (1642), and Karin Schubert (1944).

Among BIOLOGISTS In Germany

Among biologists born in Germany, Erwin Neher ranks 18Before him are Bernard Katz (1911), Otto Wilhelm Hermann von Abich (1806), Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard (1942), Johann Friedrich Gmelin (1748), Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg (1795), and August Grisebach (1814). After him are Bert Sakmann (1942), Walther Flemming (1843), Julius Richard Petri (1852), Johann Christian Daniel von Schreber (1739), Georges J. F. Köhler (1946), and Theodor Escherich (1857).