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The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1991

"for their discoveries concerning the function of single ion channels in cells"
Erwin Neher Bert Sakmann
Erwin Neher Bert Sakmann
half 1/2 of the prize half 1/2 of the prize
Federal Republic of Germany Federal Republic of Germany
Max-Planck-Institut für Biophysikalische Chemie
Goettingen, Federal Republic of Germany		 Max-Planck-Institut für medizinische Forschung
Heidelberg, Federal Republic of Germany
b. 1944 b. 1942
 
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