Gunter Blobel
Gunter Blobel
Günter Blobelis a Silesian German biologist and 1999 Nobel Prize laureate in Physiology for the discovery that proteins have intrinsic signals that govern their transport and localization in the cell...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth21 May 1936
CountryGermany
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The structure of many cellular macromolecules has been revealed at the atomic level using x-ray crystallography.
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Driving through Dresden, I still remember the many palaces, happily decorated with cherubs and other symbols of the baroque era. The city made an indelible impression on me.
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I was 8 years old in the spring of 1945 when my family fled Silesia to escape the Russian army. On our way, we passed through Dresden. A few days later, it was firebombed. The fire was so bright that night that one could read a newspaper from the light, though we were many kilometers away.