Erwin Neher (born March 20, 1944) in Landsberg am Lech, Bavaria is a German biologist. In 1987, he received the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, which is the highest honour awarded in German research.Along with Bert Sakmann, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine and Physiology in 1991 for the development of the patch-clamp technique, work Neher began as a postdoctoral associate in the laboratory of Charles F. Stevens at Yale, and later continued at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen.

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• Nobel autobiography
• Scientific genealogy

1944 births | Living people | Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine winners | Members and associates of the US National Academy of Sciences | German biologists

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