- Name: Günter Blobel
- Born: 05/21/1936
- Died: 02/18/2018 (81 years old)
- Known for: Protein targeting, gene gating hypothesis
Günter Blobel (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.
Awards: NAS Award in Molecular Biology, Richard Lounsbery Award, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Massry Prize
School: University of Kiel, University of Tübingen (M.D.), University of Wisconsin–Madison (Ph.D.)
Birth Place: Waltersdorf (currently Niegosławice), Lower Silesia, Germany
Death Place: New York City, New York, US
Source: Wikipedia
