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Erwin Neher
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German biophysicist
Erwin Neher was a German biophysicist who made groundbreaking discoveries about how cells communicate through electrical and chemical signals. His work is important because it fundamentally advanced our understanding of how individual nerve and muscle cells function at the most basic level.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1944
- Works
- 4
Top works
- Alexander von Humboldt und Charles Darwin
- Single-channel recording
- Single-channel recording
- Elektronische Messtechnik in der Physiologie
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- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Germany
- Active from
- 1966
Discography
- Big!2026
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- Listeners
- 1
- Total plays
- 1
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Fiji: an open-source platform for biological-image analysis
· 2012 · cited 65,105x
- Improved patch-clamp techniques for high-resolution current recording from cells and cell-free membrane patches
· 1981 · cited 13,495x
- Global and regional mortality from 235 causes of death for 20 age groups in 1990 and 2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010
· 2012 · cited 10,740x
- Minimal information for studies of extracellular vesicles 2018 (MISEV2018): a position statement of the International Society for Extracellular Vesicles and update of the MISEV2014 guidelines
· 2018 · cited 9,385x
- A comparative risk assessment of burden of disease and injury attributable to 67 risk factors and risk factor clusters in 21 regions, 1990–2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010
· 2012 · cited 9,223x
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Article
Erwin Neher ( German pronunciation: [ˈɛʁviːn ˈneːɐ] ; /ˈneɪər/; born 20 March 1944) is a German 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".
Early life and education