Erwin Neher

Erwin Neher
Erwin Neher (German pronunciation: [ˈɛʁviːn ˈneːɐ] ;

/ˈneɪər/;[5] born 20 March 1944) is a German Erwin Neher
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".[6][7][8]
Early life and education

Neher was born in Landsberg am Lech, Upper Bavaria,
the son of Elisabeth (née Pfeiffer), a teacher, and Franz
Xaver Neher, an executive at a dairy company.[9] He Erwin Neher in June 2015
studied physics at the Technical University of Munich Born 20 March 1944
from 1963 to 1966. Landsberg am Lech, Bavaria,
Germany
In 1966, he was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to
Nationality German
study in the US. He spent a year at the University of
Wisconsin–Madison, and earned a master's degree in Alma mater Technical University of Munich
biophysics. While at the Charles Stevens Laboratory at University of Wisconsin–
Yale University for post-doctoral work he met fellow Madison
scientist Eva-Maria Neher, whom he married in 1978 Known for patch clamp
and subsequently the couple had five children –
Awards W. Alden Spencer Award (1983)
Richard, Benjamin, Carola, Sigmund, and Margret.[10]
Nobel Prize in Physiology or
In 2003 Neher was one of 22 Nobel Laureates who Medicine (1991)
signed the Humanist Manifesto.[11] ForMemRS (1994)[1]
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize
(1987)
Career Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize
(1986)
In 1986, he was awarded the Louisa Gross Horwitz
Prize from Columbia University together with Bert Scientific career
Sakmann. In 1987, he received the Gottfried Wilhelm Fields Biophysics[2][3][4]
Leibniz Prize of the Deutsche Institutions University of Göttingen
Forschungsgemeinschaft, which is the highest honour
University of Wisconsin–
awarded in German research. Along with Bert
Sakmann, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Madison
Physiology or Medicine in 1991 for "their discoveries Yale University

concerning the function of single ion channels in
cells".[12] Neher and Sakmann were the first to record Max Planck Institute for
the currents of single ion channels on a live cell (they Biophysical Chemistry
were first recorded using the lipid bilayer method) Academic Charles F. Stevens
through their development of the patch-clamp advisors
technique,[13][14][15][16] a project Neher began as a
Website www.mpg.de/323786
postdoctoral research associate in the laboratory of
/biophysikalische_chemie
Charles F. Stevens at Yale.
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Since 1983, he became a director at the Max Planck 3786/biophysikalische_chemie_
Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen and wissM6)
led the Department for Membrane Biophysics. He
turned into an emeritus director of the Institute since 2011. He is also a Professor Emeritus at the
University of Göttingen and a co-chair of the Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience
Göttingen .
Honors and awards

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1991, jointly with Bert Sakmann)[17]
Fellow of the Royal Society (1994)[1]
Ralph W. Gerard Prize in Neuroscience (1991)
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize (1987)
Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize (1986)
Neher holds honorary degrees from:[17]
University of Alicante, Spain, 1993

University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, USA, 1993
Technical University of Munich, FRG, 1994
University of Madrid, Spain, 1994
Huazhong University of Sciences & Technology, Wuhan, PR China, 1994
University of BahÌa Blanca, Argentine, 1995
University of Rome, Italy, 1996
Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, 1999
University of Pavia, 2000
Neher was elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society (ForMemRS) in 1994.[1]
References
1. "Professor Erwin Neher ForMemRS" (https://web.archive.org/web/20151011204358/https://r
oyalsociety.org/people/erwin-neher-11998/). London: Royal Society. Archived from the
original (https://royalsociety.org/people/erwin-neher-11998/) on 2015-10-11.
2. Elektronische Messtechnik in der Physiologie. Berlin, New York, Springer-Verlag, 1974.
3. Single-channel recording / edited by Bert Sakmann and Erwin Neher. New York: Plenum
Press, c1983. ISBN 0-306-41419-8
4. Single-Channel Recording / edited by Bert Sakmann and Erwin Neher. 2nd ed. New York:
Plenum Press, c1995. ISBN 0-306-44870-X
5. "Neher" (http://www.dictionary.com/browse/neher). Random House Webster's Unabridged
Dictionary.
6. "Nobel autobiography of Neher" (http://nobelprize.org/medicine/laureates/1991/neher-autobi
o.html).
7. "Neurotree - Erwin Neher Family Tree" (https://neurotree.org/neurotree/tree.php?pid=1206).
neurotree.org.
8. Dean, Chris. "Erwin Neher - Science Video Interview" (http://www.vega.org.uk/video/progra
mme/40). Vega Science Trust.
9. "Erwin Neher – Biographical, The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1991" (https://www.
nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1991/neher-bio.html). nobelprize.org. Nobel
Media AB. Retrieved 15 December 2019.
10. Schoenfeld 2006, p. 264.
11. "Notable Signers" (https://web.archive.org/web/20121005105825/http://www.americanhuma
nist.org/Humanism/Humanist_Manifesto_III/Notable_Signers). Humanism and Its
Aspirations. American Humanist Association. Archived from the original (http://www.america
nhumanist.org/Humanism/Humanist_Manifesto_III/Notable_Signers) on October 5, 2012.
Retrieved October 4, 2012.
12. "The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1991" (http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medici
ne/laureates/1991/). Nobelprize.org. Retrieved 16 May 2011.
13. Neher E, Sakmann B (March 1992). "The patch clamp technique". Scientific American. 266
(3): 44–51. Bibcode:1992SciAm.266c..44N (https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1992SciAm.2
66c..44N). doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0392-44 (https://doi.org/10.1038%2Fscientificamer
ican0392-44). PMID 1374932 (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/1374932).
14. Neher E (1992). "[6] Correction for liquid junction potentials in patch clamp experiments".
Correction for liquid junction potentials in patch clamp experiments. Methods in Enzymology.
Vol. 207. pp. 123–31. doi:10.1016/0076-6879(92)07008-C (https://doi.org/10.1016%2F0076-
6879%2892%2907008-C). ISBN 978-0-12-182108-1. PMID 1528115 (https://pubmed.ncbi.n
lm.nih.gov/1528115).
15. Neher E (September 1988). "The use of the patch clamp technique to study second
messenger-mediated cellular events". Neuroscience. 26 (3): 727–34. doi:10.1016/0306-
4522(88)90094-2 (https://doi.org/10.1016%2F0306-4522%2888%2990094-2).
PMID 2462183 (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2462183). S2CID 45756434 (https://api.se
manticscholar.org/CorpusID:45756434).
16. Neher E, Sakmann B, Steinbach JH (July 1978). "The extracellular patch clamp: a method
for resolving currents through individual open channels in biological membranes". Pflügers
Archiv. 375 (2): 219–28. doi:10.1007/BF00584247 (https://doi.org/10.1007%2FBF0058424
7). PMID 567789 (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/567789). S2CID 8035857 (https://api.se
manticscholar.org/CorpusID:8035857).
17. "Erwin Neher Biographical" (https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/1991/neher/biograp
hical/). www.nobelprize.org. Retrieved 10 March 2021.
Further reading
Schoenfeld, Robert L (January 2006). Exploring the Nervous System: With Electronic Tools,
an Institutional Base, a Network of Scientists (https://books.google.com/books?id=cTy1Y-P_
0VMC&pg=PA284). Universal-Publishers. ISBN 978-1-58112-461-3.
External links
Erwin Neher (https://www.nobelprize.org/laureate/444) on Nobelprize.org
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Erwin Neher (German pronunciation: [ˈɛʁviːn ˈneːɐ] ;

Early life and education

Physiology or Medicine in 1991 for "their discoveries Yale University

Honors and awards

University of Alicante, Spain, 1993

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