Günter Blobel

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Günter Blobel
George Palade
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Günter Blobel (German pronunciation: [ˈɡʏntɐ ˈbloːbl̩] ⓘ; May 21, 1936 – February 18, 2018) was a Silesian German and American biologist and 1999 Nobel Prize laureate in Physiology for the discovery that proteins have intrinsic signals that govern their transport and localization in the cell.

Biography

Günter Blobel was born in

Freiberg. He studied medicine and graduated from the University of Tübingen in 1960. After two years service in a medical internship, he moved to Madison, Wisconsin, following an older brother, enrolling in the University of Wisconsin–Madison and, joining the lab of Van R. Potter for his graduate work. Blobel matriculated in 1967 with a Ph.D. He then moved to Rockefeller University as a postdoctoral fellow with George Palade, and was soon appointed as a professor.[1]

Blobel was appointed to the

signal peptides.[2] Signal peptides form an integral part of protein targeting, a mechanism for cells to direct newly synthesized protein
molecules to their proper location by means of an "address tag" (i.e., a signal peptide) within the molecule.

Blobel died of cancer in Manhattan at New York-Presbyterian Weill Cornell Medical Center on February 18, 2018 at the age of 81.[3][4] By the time of his death, Blobel was described as having "ushered cell biology into the molecular age" through his work on the fractionation and reconstitution of functional protein complexes and sub-cellular components in vitro.[1]

Philanthropy

Blobel became well known for his direct and active support for the rebuilding of

University of Leipzig, which had been blown up by the communist regime of East Germany in 1968, arguing "this is a shrine of German cultural history, connected to the most important names in German cultural history."[5]
Gunter was also a founding member of the board of directors of Research Foundation to Cure AIDS, a U.S. not-for-profit research organization.

Personal life

Blobel lost his older sister to aerial bombing of a train she was on in 1945, shortly after the bombing of Dresden, while an older brother survived the war and became a veterinarian in the United States.

The Scripps Research Institute. Furthermore, he was Co-Founder and Chairman of the Scientific Advisory Board for Chromocell Corporation.[7] He sat on the Selection Committee for Life Science and Medicine which chooses winners of the Shaw Prize. Blobel had a passion for opera and architecture, in addition to his passion for experimental science.[1]

Scientific awards

See also

  • Distinguished German-American of the Year

References

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  2. ^ "The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1999" (Press release). The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet. 11 October 1999. The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet has today decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for 1999 to Günter Blobel for the discovery that "proteins have intrinsic signals that govern their transport and localization in the cell"
  3. ^ "Nobelpreisträger Günter Blobel gestorben" [Nobel Prize winner Günter Blobel died]. Die Welt (in German). 19 February 2018. Retrieved 2018-04-14.
  4. ^ McFadden, Robert D (19 February 2018). "Günter Blobel, Nobel Laureate Who Found Cell 'ZIP Codes,' Dies at 81". Obituaries. The New York Times. Retrieved 2018-04-14.
  5. National Public Radio
    22 June 2003
  6. ^ "History of Barbetta". Barbetta Restaurant. Archived from the original on 20 December 2010. Retrieved 28 March 2015.
  7. ^ Gunter Blobel, M.D., Ph.D. / Chairman of the Scientific Advisory Board Archived 2009-03-27 at the Wayback Machine
  8. ^ "Otto-Warburg-Medal". GBM. Archived from the original on 4 November 2016. Retrieved 12 January 2014.
  9. ^ a b c "Günter Blobel - A Superstar of Science".
  10. ^ "List of Members". www.leopoldina.org. Retrieved 9 October 2017.
  11. ^ "Gunter Blobel". www.nasonline.org. Retrieved 2022-04-26.
  12. ^ "Gunter Klaus-Joachim Blobel". American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Retrieved 2022-04-26.
  13. ^ "APS Member History". search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved 2022-04-26.
  14. ^ "2006 Great Immigrants: Gunter Blobel". Great Immigrants, Great Americans. Retrieved February 21, 2024.
  15. ^ "Блобел Г.. - Общая информация".
  16. ^ "Günter Blobel, MD, PHD".

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