Bert Sakmann

Bert Sakmann
Bert Sakmann
Born	12 June 1942; Stuttgart, German Reich
Awards	W. Alden Spencer Award (1983); Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize (1986); Louis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine (1988); Harvey Prize (1991); Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine (1991); ForMemRS (1994);
	Scientific career
Institutions	Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology; University College London;
Website	www.neuro.mpg.de/sakmann

Bert Sakmann (German pronunciation: [ˈbɛʁt ˈzakˌman] ^ⓘ; born 12 June 1942) is a German cell physiologist. He shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Erwin Neher in 1991 for their work on "the function of single ion channels in cells," and the invention of the patch clamp. Bert Sakmann was Professor at Heidelberg University and is an Emeritus Scientific Member of the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research in Heidelberg, Germany. Since 2008 he leads an emeritus research group at the Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology.

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