# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/erwin-neher
# Generated: 2026-08-12T23:57:16.136Z

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name: "Erwin Neher"
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description: "Erwin Neher is a German biophysicist, specializing in the field of cell physiology. For significant contribution in the field, in 1991 he was awarded, along with Bert Sakmann, the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for \"their discoveries concerning the function of single ion channels in cells\"."
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birthDate: "1944-03-20"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump