The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1991
Erwin Neher, Bert Sakmann
Bert Sakmann
Born: 12 June 1942, Stuttgart, Germany
Affiliation at the time of the award: Max-Planck-Institut für medizinische Forschung, Heidelberg, Federal Republic of Germany
Prize motivation: "for their discoveries concerning the function of single ion channels in cells"