Erwin Neher (* 20. March 1944 in Landsberg at the Lech, Bavaria) was lent to 1991 together with Bert Sakmann of the Nobelpreis for physiology or medicine for their innovative discoveries for the function by individual ion channels in cells. Both scientists were responsible involved in the development of the Patch Clamp technology, which formed the basis for its discoveries. Professor Neher is since 1983 a director at the institute for Max-Planck for biophysical chemistry in Goettingen and director/conductor of the department of diaphragm biophysics.

Neher is son teacher trained by Franz Xaver Neher, employee of a company for milk products, and Elizabeth Neher (geb. Pfeiffer). It has two older sisters. Erwin Neher visited the High School of the Maristen in Mindelheim. There mathematics and physics were its favourite fan. In its spare time it was interested in new the literature appeared to the cybernetics. It studied physics starting from 1963 to the TH Munich, "“around bio physicists to become"”, and starting from 1966 with the help of a Fulbright of scholarship at the University OF Wisconsin.

At the institute for Max-Planck for psychiatry in Munich it attained a doctorate 1970 with H Dietrich lux, in whose laboratory it learned Bert Sakmann to know also. Starting from 1976 Neher and Sakmann had Goettingen a Young Investigator Laboratory together at the university, where they worked together with further researchers.

Neher is married since 1978 with Dr. Eva-Maria, with whom he has five children. Beside the Nobelpreis it received numerous further honors, among them one Ehrenprofessur in Goettingen and ten honour doctor titles on four different continents, as well as 1987 the Gottfried William Leibniz price of the German research council.

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• Autobiografie for '' the Nobel committee ''
• Speech for the award of the Nobelpreises on 9 December 1991

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