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Günter Blobel
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Günter Blobel

1936 – 2018 · aged 82

German American biologist (1999 Nobel Prize)

Born
21 May 1936 · Niegosławice
Died
18 Feb 2018 · New York City
Part ofPoland967 CE – todayNazi Germany1860 – 1945

Life timeline

Their life from birth to death. On the timeline, world events of the time are shown faintly.

Showing 94 years
  1. 21 May 1936BornBorn in Niegosławice
  2. 1978AwardNAS Award in Molecular Biology
  3. 1982AwardCanada Gairdner International Award
  4. 1983AwardOtto Warburg Medal
  5. 1983AwardRichard Lounsbery Award
  6. 1986AwardE. B. Wilson Medal
  7. 1986AwardKeith R. Porter Lecture
  8. 1987AwardLouisa Gross Horwitz Prize
  9. 1992AwardMax Delbrück Medal
  10. 1992AwardMax Planck Research Award
  11. 1993AwardAlbert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research
  12. 1996AwardKing Faisal Prize in Science
  13. 1999AwardNobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
  14. 18 Feb 2018DiedDied in New York City

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Meanwhile in the world

Major world events during their lifetime (1936 – 2018).

  1. 19361936 Summer Olympics
  2. 1937 – 1945Second Sino-Japanese War
  3. 19381938 FIFA World Cup
  4. 1938Munich Agreement
  5. 1939 – 1940Winter War
  6. 1939 – 1945World War II
  7. 1940 – 1945Auschwitz concentration camp
  8. 1941Attack on Pearl Harbor
  9. 1941 – 1945Eastern Front
  10. 1941Operation Barbarossa
  11. 1942 – 1943Battle of Stalingrad
  12. 1945Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
  13. 1945 – 1946Nuremberg trials
  14. 19501950 FIFA World Cup
  15. 1950 – 1953Korean War
  16. 1953 – 1959Cuban Revolution
  17. 19541954 FIFA World Cup
  18. 1955 – 1975Vietnam War
  19. 1956Hungarian Revolution of 1956
  20. 1956Suez Crisis
  21. 19581958 FIFA World Cup
  22. 1959Antarctic Treaty System
  23. 19621962 FIFA World Cup
  24. 1962Cuban Missile Crisis
  25. 19661966 FIFA World Cup
  26. 1966 – 1976Cultural Revolution
  27. 1968Prague Spring
  28. 1969Apollo 11 Moon landing
  29. 19721972 Summer Olympics
  30. 19741974 FIFA World Cup
  31. 19781978 FIFA World Cup
  32. 1978 – 1979Iranian Revolution
  33. 1979 – 1989Soviet–Afghan War
  34. 1980 – 1988Iran–Iraq War
  35. 19841984 Summer Olympics
  36. 1985Schengen Agreement
  37. 19891989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre
  38. 1989Fall of the Berlin Wall
  39. 19901990 FIFA World Cup
  40. 1991Dissolution of the Soviet Union

Biography

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.

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