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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 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. Since 2008 he…

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Born 12 June 1942 · Q77081

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Awarded The Paton Lecture (2016).
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Awarded Hodgkin-Huxley-Katz Prize Lecture (2002).
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2021· 1 entry

Sep 9, 2021Documented record69% confidence

EurekAlert!: Bert Sakmann at Ellis Island Medal of Honor (IMAGE)

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2016· 1 entry

Jun 15, 2016Documented record84% confidence

Awarded The Paton Lecture (2016).

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2009· 1 entry

Feb 22, 2009Documented record69% confidence

idw: "Die Neurophysiologie von Entscheidungen" - Öffentlicher Vortrag von Nobelpreisträger Bert Sakmann an der Jacobs University

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2002· 1 entry

Jun 15, 2002Documented record84% confidence

Awarded Hodgkin-Huxley-Katz Prize Lecture (2002).

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1996· 1 entry

Jun 15, 1996Documented record84% confidence

Awarded Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts order (1996).

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1994· 1 entry

Jun 15, 1994Documented record84% confidence

Awarded Foreign Member of the Royal Society (1994).

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1993· 2 entries

Jun 15, 1993Documented record84% confidence

Awarded honorary doctor of the University of Alicante (1993).

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1993Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

Became a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina

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1992· 2 entries

Jun 15, 1992Documented record84% confidence

Awarded honorary doctorate from University of Bordeaux-II (1992).

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Jun 15, 1992Documented record84% confidence

Awarded Order of Merit of Baden-Württemberg (1992).

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1991· 7 entries

Dec 10, 1991Documented record85% confidence

Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — for their discoveries concerning the function of single ion channels in cells.

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Jun 15, 1991Documented record84% confidence

Awarded Ralph W. Gerard Prize (1991).

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Jun 15, 1991Documented record84% confidence

Awarded Baden-Wuerttemberg Research Award (1991).

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Jun 15, 1991Documented record84% confidence

Won Carus medal (1991).

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Jun 15, 1991Documented record84% confidence

Awarded Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1991).

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Jun 15, 1991Documented record84% confidence

Awarded Harvey Prize (1991).

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1991Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

For their work on "the function of single ion channels in cells," and the invention of the patch clamp

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1990· 2 entries

Jun 15, 1990Documented record84% confidence

Awarded Ernst Hellmut Vits Award (1990).

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1990Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

Accepted a position at the Faculty of Natural Science Medicine at Heidelberg University

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1989· 1 entry

Jun 15, 1989Documented record84% confidence

Awarded Canada Gairdner International Award (1989).

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1988· 1 entry

Jun 15, 1988Documented record84% confidence

Awarded Louis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine (1988).

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1987· 2 entries

Jun 15, 1987Documented record84% confidence

Awarded Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize (1987).

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1987Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

Received the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, which is the highest honour awarded in German research

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1986· 2 entries

Jun 15, 1986Documented record84% confidence

Awarded Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize (1986).

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1986Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

Sakmann and Erwin Neher were awarded the Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize from Columbia University

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1984· 1 entry

Jun 15, 1984Documented record84% confidence

Awarded Adolf Fick Prize (1984).

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1983· 1 entry

Jun 15, 1983Documented record84% confidence

Awarded W. Alden Spencer Award (1983).

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1981· 1 entry

Jan 1, 1981Documented record79% confidence

Published “Improved patch-clamp techniques for high-resolution current recording from cells and cell-free membrane patches” in Pflügers Archiv - European Journal of Physiology — cited 13,516 times.

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1979· 1 entry

Jun 15, 1979Documented record84% confidence

Awarded Feldberg Foundation Prize (1979).

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1974· 1 entry

1974Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

Completed his medical dissertation, under the title Elektrophysiologie der neuralen Helladaptation in der Katzenretina (Electrophysiology of Neural Light Adaption in the Cat Retina) in the Medical Faculty of Göttingen

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1971· 1 entry

1971Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

Moved to University College London, where he worked in the Department of Biophysics under Bernard Katz

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1968· 1 entry

1968Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

At LMU Munich, while also working as a scientific assistant (Wissenschaftlicher Assistent) at Munich's Max-Planck-Institut für Psychiatrie, in the Neurophysiology Department under Otto Detlev Creutzfeldt

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1942· 1 entry

Jun 12, 1942Documented record86% confidence

Born 1942-06-12.

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