What is Günter Blobel?
{{Infobox person |name = Günter Blobel |image = Gunter Blobel 2008 1.JPG |image_size = 250px |caption = Günter Blobel in 2008. |birth_name = |birth_date = {{Birth date|mf=yes|1936|5|21}} |birth_place = [[Niegosławice|Waltersdorf]],<ref>http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1999/blobel-autobio.html</ref> [[Prussia]] |death_date = {{death date and age|mf=y|2018|2|18|1936|5|21}} |death_place = [[New York City]], U.S. |occupation = [[Biochemist]] | nationality = [[Germany|German]]-[[United States|American]] | other_names = | known_for = [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] in 1999 }} '''Günter Blobel''' (May 21, 1936 &ndash; February 18, 2018) was a German-born [[Americans|American]] [[biochemist]]. His native city, [[Niegosławice|Waltersdorf]], now belongs to [[Poland]]. He was elected a foreign member of the [[Academia Europaea]] in 1992.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ae-info.org/ae/Member/Blobel_Günter |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190328104806/https://www.ae-info.org/ae/Member/Blobel_Günter |title=Günter Blobel |publisher=Academia Europaea |archive-date=28 March 2019}}</ref> He has received the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] in 1999 for his studies concerning [[protein targeting]]. Blobel died in [[New York City]] on February 18, 2018 of [[prostate cancer]] at the age of 81.<ref>[https://derstandard.at/2000074562591/Medizin-Nobelpreistraeger-Guenter-Blobel-gestorben Medizin-Nobelpreisträger Günter Blobel gestorben] {{in lang|de}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} {{Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine}} {{Nobelprize|Physiology or Medicine}} {{Nestlé}} {{authority control}} {{US-bio-stub}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Blobel, Gunther}} [[Category:1936 births]] [[Category:2018 deaths]] [[Category:Rockefeller University faculty]] [[Category:Academics from Maryland]] [[Category:American biochemists]] [[Category:American Nobel Prize winners]] [[Category:Naturalized citizens of the United States]] [[Category:Prussian scientists]] [[Category:German