# Günter Blobel

> Günter Blobel discovered that proteins carry their own address labels — intrinsic signals that tell them exactly where to go inside a cell. The finding rewrote cell biology and won him the 1999 Nobel Prize in Physiology.

*German American biologist (1999 Nobel Prize)*

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## Identity
- **Profile type:** Doctor ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631))
- **Category:** Doctors
- **Born:** 1936-05-21
- **Died:** 2018-02-18
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Born in Silesia on May 21, 1936, Blobel trained as a biologist and eventually worked in both Germany and the United States. His research zeroed in on a question that had stumped the field: how do proteins, once made, know where they belong in the chaos of a cell? He found the answer in the proteins themselves — they contain built-in signals, molecular ZIP codes that govern their transport and localization. The work earned him the Nobel Prize in Physiology in 1999. He died on February 18, 2018.

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## Topics
#Scientists, #Doctor, #Medicine, #Biology, #20th Century

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