BIOLOGIST

Günter Blobel

1936 - 2018

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Günter Blobel (German pronunciation: [ˈɡʏntɐ ˈbloːbl̩] ; May 21, 1936 – February 18, 2018) 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Günter Blobel has received more than 188,497 page views. His biography is available in 56 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 55 in 2019). Günter Blobel is the 97th most popular biologist (up from 102nd in 2019), the 180th most popular biography from Poland (up from 199th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Polish Biologist.

Günter Blobel is a German-born American scientist who won the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1999 for his discovery of the role of protein in the cell membrane.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Günter Blobel ranks 97 out of 1,097. Before him are Otto Wilhelm Hermann von Abich, Philip Sclater, Hermann Joseph Muller, John B. Calhoun, Gabriele Falloppio, and Ivan Vladimirovich Michurin. After him are Jules A. Hoffmann, Lynn Margulis, Oliver Smithies, John Franklin Enders, Jean Dausset, and Nettie Stevens.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1936, Günter Blobel ranks 43. Before him are Jim Clark, Burt Reynolds, Albert Finney, Gerhard Ertl, Buddy Holly, and B. J. Habibie. After him are Steve Reich, Émile Lahoud, Ghassan Kanafani, Bill Wyman, Raymond Poulidor, and Benedict Anderson. Among people deceased in 2018, Günter Blobel ranks 43. Before him are Jin Yong, Jamal Khashoggi, Roy J. Glauber, Reynaldo Bignone, Burton Richter, and Barbara Bush. After him are Leon M. Lederman, Bernard Lewis, Shoko Asahara, Paul Allen, R. Lee Ermey, and Milena Dravić.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Günter Blobel ranks 180 out of 1,694. Before him are Albert Marth (1828), Marian Rejewski (1905), Grzegorz Lato (1950), Hans-Jürgen von Arnim (1889), Casimir I the Restorer (1016), and Mykhailo Hrushevsky (1866). After him are Benzion Netanyahu (1910), Adolph Menzel (1815), Solomon Asch (1907), Adam Jerzy Czartoryski (1770), Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (1915), and Catherine Opalińska (1680).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Poland

Among biologists born in Poland, Günter Blobel ranks 2. Before him are Ferdinand Cohn (1828). After him are Georg Forster (1754), Adolf Engler (1844), Johann Reinhold Forster (1729), Julius von Sachs (1832), C. L. Gloger (1803), Gustav Radde (1831), Heinrich von Kittlitz (1799), Martin Rathke (1793), Ludwik Hirszfeld (1884), and Władysław Taczanowski (1819).

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