Awards & Winners

Bert Sakmann

Date of Birth 12-June-1942
Place of Birth Stuttgart
(Germany, Baden-Württemberg, Stuttgart)
Nationality Germany
Profession Professor, Physiologist
Bert Sakmann 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 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. Since 2008 he leads an emeritus research group at the Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology.

Awards by Bert Sakmann

Check all the awards nominated and won by Bert Sakmann.

1991


Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
(for their discoveries concerning the function of single ion channels in cells)

1989


Gairdner Foundation International Award
(For the development of the patch clamp technique.)