Günter Blobel

Günter Blobel

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1999

The Rockefeller University

“for the discovery that proteins have intrinsic signals that govern their transport and localization in the cell”

Günter Blobel was a German-American cell biologist. He was awarded the 1999 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering that proteins have intrinsic signals that govern their transport and localization in the cell. He worked at Rockefeller University.

Field
Biology · Cell Biology
Lifespan
1936–2018