Bert Sakmann
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Bert Sakmann(German pronunciation:[ˈbɛʁtˈzakˌman];born 12 June 1942) is a German cellphysiologist.He shared theNobel Prize in Physiology or MedicinewithErwin Neherin 1991 for their work on "the function of single ion channels in cells," and the invention of thepatch clamp.[3][4]Bert Sakmann was Professor atHeidelberg Universityand is an Emeritus Scientific Member of theMax Planck Institute for Medical ResearchinHeidelberg,Germany.Since 2008 he leads an emeritus research group at theMax Planck Institute of Neurobiology.[3][5][6]
Life and career
[edit]Sakmann was born inStuttgart,the son of Annemarie (née Schaefer), a physical therapist, and Bertold Sakmann, a theater director.[7]Sakmann enrolled in Volksschule inLindau,and completed the WagenburggymnasiuminStuttgartin 1961. He studied medicine from 1967 onwards inTübingen,Freiburg,Berlin,ParisandMunich.After completing his medical exams at Ludwig-Maximilians University in Munich, he became a medical assistant in 1968 atMunich University,while also working as a scientific assistant (Wissenschaftlicher Assistent) at Munich'sMax-Planck-Institut für Psychiatrie,in theNeurophysiologyDepartment underOtto Detlev Creutzfeldt.In 1971 he moved toUniversity College London,where he worked in the Department ofBiophysicsunderBernard Katz.In 1974, he completed his medical dissertation, under the titleElektrophysiologie der neuralen Helladaptation in der Katzenretina(Electrophysiologyof Neural Light Adaption in the Cat Retina) in the Medical Faculty of Göttingen University.[3]
Afterwards (still in 1974), Sakmann returned to the lab of Otto Creutzfeldt, who had meanwhile moved to theMax Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistryin Göttingen. Sakmann joined the membrane biology group in 1979.
In 1990 he accepted a position at the Faculty of Natural Science Medicine atHeidelberg University.One year later, he became a full university professor at the Faculty of Biology in Heidelberg.
On 2 June 2009,Peter Gruss,the president of the Max Planck Society, announced that Sakmann would serve as the scientific director of the Max Planck Florida Institute, the organization's biomedical research facility atFlorida Atlantic UniversityinJupiter, Florida.
Sakmann is the founder of the Bert-Sakmann-Stiftung.
Awards and honors
[edit]In 1986, Sakmann andErwin Neherwere awarded theLouisa Gross Horwitz PrizefromColumbia University.In 1987, he received theGottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prizeof theDeutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft,which is the highest honour awarded in German research. In 1991, he received theRalph W. Gerard Prize in Neuroscience,theHarvey Prizeand theNobel prizeforPhysiologyorMedicinealong with Neher, with whom he had worked in Göttingen.[3]In 1993 he became a member of theGerman Academy of Sciences Leopoldina.[8]He was elected aForeign Member of the Royal Society (ForMemRS) in 1994.[2]
References
[edit]- ^"Professor Bert SAKMANN".Jeantet. 1 October 2017.
- ^ab"Professor Bert Sakmann ForMemRS".London:Royal Society.Archived fromthe originalon 10 October 2015.
- ^abcd"Nobel autobiography".Archived fromthe originalon 15 December 2010.
- ^Hamill, O. P.; Marty, A.; Neher, E.; Sakmann, B.; Sigworth, F. J. (1981). "Improved patch-clamp techniques for high-resolution current recording from cells and cell-free membrane patches".Pflügers Archiv: European Journal of Physiology.391(2): 85–100.CiteSeerX10.1.1.456.107.doi:10.1007/BF00656997.PMID6270629.S2CID12014433.
- ^Betz, W.; Sakmann, B. (1971). ""Disjunction" of frog neuromuscular synapses by treatment with proteolytic enzymes ".Nature New Biology.232(29): 94–95.doi:10.1038/newbio232094a0.hdl:21.11116/0000-0001-3090-5.PMID4328253.
- ^Betz, W.; Sakmann, B. (1973)."Effects of proteolytic enzymes on function and structure of frog neuromuscular junctions".The Journal of Physiology.230(3): 673–688.doi:10.1113/jphysiol.1973.sp010211.PMC1350622.PMID4352108.
- ^"Bert Sakmann – Biographical, The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1991".NobelPrize.org.Nobel Media AB.Retrieved15 December2019.
- ^"Bert Sakmann".German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina.Retrieved1 June2021.
External links
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- Bert Sakmannon Nobelprize.org
- 1942 births
- Living people
- Alumni of University College London
- Members of the European Molecular Biology Organization
- Foreign members of the Royal Society
- Humboldt University of Berlin alumni
- 21st-century German biologists
- German Nobel laureates
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize winners
- Foreign associates of the National Academy of Sciences
- Nobel laureates in Physiology or Medicine
- Scientists from Stuttgart
- Recipients of the Pour le Mérite (civil class)
- Recipients of the Order of Merit of Baden-Württemberg
- University of Freiburg alumni
- Academic staff of Heidelberg University
- Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich alumni
- Max Planck Society people
- Electrophysiologists
- Members of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
- 20th-century German biologists
- Members of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities
- Max Planck Institute directors