Günter Blobel
German American biologist (1999 Nobel Prize) · Germany · Doctors · Lived 1936 to 2018 · aged 81
Günter Blobel is read about 52 times a day, in 59 languages.
A typical day, 30 days to 5 October 2026
The middle day of the days counted, so one week of news cannot move it. The line under it is the last 80 days, one point a day.
Something wrong?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.
A life in dates
Also in Deutsch
Photos 6
Awards
In their orbit
About this person
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.
Fame.am measures public visibility signals. It does not measure human value, talent, morality, or credibility.