Neher was one of 22 Nobel Laureates who signed the Humanist Manifesto
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Erwin Neher is a German biophysicist, specializing in the field of cell physiology. For significant contribution in the field, in 1991 he was awarded, along with Bert Sakmann, the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for "their discoveries concerning the function of single ion channels in cells".
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Neher was one of 22 Nobel Laureates who signed the Humanist Manifesto
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Awarded Sharpey-Schafer Lecture and Prize (2002).
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Awarded Great Cross with Star and Sash of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (1997).
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Awarded Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts order (1995).
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Awarded honorary doctor of the Huazhong University of Science and Technology (1994).
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Awarded Foreign Member of the Royal Society (1994).
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Awarded honorary doctor of the University of Alicante (1993).
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Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — for their discoveries concerning the function of single ion channels in cells.
Won Carus medal (1991).
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Awarded Ralph W. Gerard Prize (1991).
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Awarded Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1991).
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Was awarded, along with Bert Sakmann, the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for "their discoveries concerning the function of single ion channels in cells"
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For "their discoveries concerning the function of single ion channels in cells"
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Awarded Lower Saxony State Prize (1990).
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Awarded Ernst Hellmut Vits Award (1990).
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Awarded Bristol-Myers Squibb Award for Distinguished Achievement in Neuroscience Research (1990).
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Awarded Canada Gairdner International Award (1989).
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Awarded honorary doctorate of Hasselt University (1988).
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Awarded Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize (1987).
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Received the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, which is the highest honour awarded in German research
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Awarded Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize (1986).
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Was awarded the Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize from Columbia University together with Bert Sakmann
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Awarded Adolf Fick Prize (1984).
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Awarded W. Alden Spencer Award (1983).
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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.
Awarded Feldberg Foundation Prize (1979).
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And subsequently the couple had five children – Richard, Benjamin, Carola, Sigmund and Margret
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Was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to study in the US
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Born 1944-03-20.
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