Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1991
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Erwin Neher
Prize share: 1/2
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Bert Sakmann
Prize share: 1/2
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1991 was awarded jointly to Erwin Neher and Bert Sakmann "for their discoveries concerning the function of single ion channels in cells"
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