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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 174,737 page views. His biography is available in 55 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 52 in 2019). Günter Blobel is the 103rd most popular biologist (down from 97th in 2019), the 199th most popular biography from Poland (down from 179th in 2019) and the 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 103 out of 841. Before him are Ivan Vladimirovich Michurin, Carl Peter Thunberg, Nikolay Pirogov, Philip Sclater, Hans Christian Gram, and Martinus Beijerinck. After him are Charles Lucien Bonaparte, Sylvia Earle, Julius Richard Petri, Aaron Ciechanover, Ludwig von Bertalanffy, and Christiaan Hendrik Persoon.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1936, Günter Blobel ranks 53. Before him are Don Cherry, Engelbert Humperdinck, Dean Stockwell, Yasuo Fukuda, Anna German, and Choummaly Sayasone. After him are Denny Hulme, Bruce Dern, Alan J. Heeger, Abdul Qadeer Khan, Eric Walter Elst, and Assia Djebar. Among people deceased in 2018, Günter Blobel ranks 47. Before him are R. Lee Ermey, Riccardo Giacconi, Burton Richter, Jens Christian Skou, Milena Dravić, and Claude Lanzmann. After him are Joël Robuchon, Jean-Louis Tauran, Paul D. Boyer, Scott Wilson, Reynaldo Bignone, and Gérard Genette.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Günter Blobel ranks 199 out of 1,454. Before him are Albert Marth (1828), Henryk Górecki (1933), Adam Jerzy Czartoryski (1770), Hans Lammers (1879), Hermann Balck (1893), and Józef Gosławski (1908). After him are Paul Tillich (1886), Andrzej Duda (1972), Otto von Below (1857), Hermann Grassmann (1809), Nikolaus von Falkenhorst (1885), and Stanislaus of Szczepanów (1030).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Poland

Among biologists born in Poland, Günter Blobel ranks 1. After him are Ferdinand Cohn (1828), Georg Forster (1754), Adolf Engler (1844), Johann Reinhold Forster (1729), Julius von Sachs (1832), Martin Rathke (1793), C. L. Gloger (1803), Johannes Thiele (1860), Ludwik Hirszfeld (1884), Gustav Radde (1831), and Władysław Taczanowski (1819).

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