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Neher was born in [[Landsberg am Lech]], [[Upper Bavaria]], the son of Elisabeth (née Pfeiffer), a teacher, and Franz Xaver Neher, an executive at a dairy company.<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1991/neher-bio.html | title=Erwin Neher – Biographical, The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1991 |work=nobelprize.org |publisher=Nobel Media AB|access-date=15 December 2019}}</ref> He studied physics at the [[Technical University of Munich]] from 1963 to 1966.
Neher was born in [[Landsberg am Lech]], [[Upper Bavaria]], the son of Elisabeth (née Pfeiffer), a teacher, and Franz Xaver Neher, an executive at a dairy company.<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1991/neher-bio.html | title=Erwin Neher – Biographical, The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1991 |work=nobelprize.org |publisher=Nobel Media AB|access-date=15 December 2019}}</ref> He studied physics at the [[Technical University of Munich]] from 1963 to 1966.


In 1966, he was awarded a [[Fulbright Scholarship]] to study in the US. He spent a year at the [[University of Wisconsin–Madison]], and earned a master's degree in biophysics. While at the Charles Stevens Laboratory at [[Yale University]] for post-doctoral work he met fellow scientist [[Eva-Maria Neher]], whom he married in 1978 and subsequently the couple had five children – Richard, Benjamin, Carola, Sigmund, and Margret.{{Sfn|Schoenfeld|2006|p=264}}
In 1966, he was awarded a [[Fulbright Scholarship]] to study in the US. He spent a year at the [[University of Wisconsin–Madison]], and earned a master's degree in biophysics. While at the laboratory of the [[Max-Planck-Institute for Biophysical Chemistry]] he met fellow scientist [[Eva-Maria Neher]] (born Ruhr), whom he married in 1978 and subsequently the couple had five children – [[Richard_A._Neher|Richard]], Benjamin, Carola, Sigmund and Margret.{{Sfn|Schoenfeld|2006|p=264}}


In 2003 Neher was one of 22 Nobel Laureates who signed the [[Humanism and Its Aspirations|Humanist Manifesto]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.americanhumanist.org/Humanism/Humanist_Manifesto_III/Notable_Signers |title=Notable Signers |publisher=American Humanist Association |work=Humanism and Its Aspirations |access-date=October 4, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121005105825/http://www.americanhumanist.org/Humanism/Humanist_Manifesto_III/Notable_Signers |archive-date=October 5, 2012 }}</ref>
In 2003 Neher was one of 22 Nobel Laureates who signed the [[Humanism and Its Aspirations|Humanist Manifesto]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.americanhumanist.org/Humanism/Humanist_Manifesto_III/Notable_Signers |title=Notable Signers |publisher=American Humanist Association |work=Humanism and Its Aspirations |access-date=October 4, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121005105825/http://www.americanhumanist.org/Humanism/Humanist_Manifesto_III/Notable_Signers |archive-date=October 5, 2012 }}</ref>


==Career==
==Career==
In 1986, he was awarded the [[Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize]] from [[Columbia University]] together with [[Bert Sakmann]]. In 1987, he received the [[Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize]] of the [[Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft]], which is the highest honour awarded in German research.  Along with [[Bert Sakmann]], he was awarded the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] in 1991 for "their discoveries concerning the function of single [[ion channels]] in cells".<ref>{{cite web|title=The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1991|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1991/|work=Nobelprize.org|access-date=16 May 2011}}</ref>  Neher and Sakmann were the first to record the currents of single ion channels on a live cell (they were first recorded using the lipid bilayer method) through their development of the [[patch-clamp technique]],<ref>{{cite journal |vauthors=Neher E, Sakmann B |title=The patch clamp technique |journal=Scientific American |volume=266 |issue=3 |pages=44–51 |date=March 1992 |pmid=1374932 |doi=10.1038/scientificamerican0392-44|bibcode=1992SciAm.266c..44N }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |author=Neher E |title=Correction for liquid junction potentials in patch clamp experiments |volume=207 |pages=123–31 |year=1992 |pmid=1528115 |doi=10.1016/0076-6879(92)07008-C |series=Methods in Enzymology |isbn=978-0-12-182108-1|chapter=&#91;6&#93; Correction for liquid junction potentials in patch clamp experiments }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |author=Neher E |title=The use of the patch clamp technique to study second messenger-mediated cellular events |journal=Neuroscience |volume=26 |issue=3 |pages=727–34 |date=September 1988 |pmid=2462183 |doi=10.1016/0306-4522(88)90094-2|s2cid=45756434 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |vauthors=Neher E, Sakmann B, Steinbach JH |title=The extracellular patch clamp: a method for resolving currents through individual open channels in biological membranes |journal=Pflügers Archiv |volume=375 |issue=2 |pages=219–28 |date=July 1978 |pmid=567789 |doi=10.1007/BF00584247|s2cid=8035857 }}</ref> a project Neher began as a [[postdoctoral research]] associate in the laboratory of [[Charles F. Stevens]] at Yale.
In 1986, he was awarded the [[Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize]] from [[Columbia University]] together with [[Bert Sakmann]]. In 1987, he received the [[Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize]] of the [[Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft]], which is the highest honour awarded in German research.  Along with [[Bert Sakmann]], he was awarded the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] in 1991 for "their discoveries concerning the function of single [[ion channels]] in cells".<ref>{{cite web|title=The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1991|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1991/|work=Nobelprize.org|access-date=16 May 2011}}</ref>  Neher and Sakmann were the first to record the currents of single ion channels on a live cell (they were first recorded using the lipid bilayer method) through their development of the [[patch-clamp technique]],.<ref>{{cite journal |vauthors=Neher E, Sakmann B |title=The patch clamp technique |journal=Scientific American |volume=266 |issue=3 |pages=44–51 |date=March 1992 |pmid=1374932 |doi=10.1038/scientificamerican0392-44|bibcode=1992SciAm.266c..44N }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |author=Neher E |title=Correction for liquid junction potentials in patch clamp experiments |volume=207 |pages=123–31 |year=1992 |pmid=1528115 |doi=10.1016/0076-6879(92)07008-C |series=Methods in Enzymology |isbn=978-0-12-182108-1|chapter=&#91;6&#93; Correction for liquid junction potentials in patch clamp experiments }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |author=Neher E |title=The use of the patch clamp technique to study second messenger-mediated cellular events |journal=Neuroscience |volume=26 |issue=3 |pages=727–34 |date=September 1988 |pmid=2462183 |doi=10.1016/0306-4522(88)90094-2|s2cid=45756434 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |vauthors=Neher E, Sakmann B, Steinbach JH |title=The extracellular patch clamp: a method for resolving currents through individual open channels in biological membranes |journal=Pflügers Archiv |volume=375 |issue=2 |pages=219–28 |date=July 1978 |pmid=567789 |doi=10.1007/BF00584247|s2cid=8035857 }}</ref> The methodology has been further developed with the strong encouragement of [[Charles F. Stevens]] in his laboratory at [[Yale University]].


Since 1983, he became a director at the [[Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry]] in [[Göttingen]] and led the Department for Membrane Biophysics. He turned into an emeritus director of the Institute since 2011. He is also a Professor Emeritus at the [[University of Göttingen]] and a co-chair of the Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience Göttingen{{when|date=May 2019}} .
Since 1983, he became a director at the [[Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry]] in [[Göttingen]] and led the Department for Membrane Biophysics. He turned into an emeritus director of the Institute since 2011. He is also a Professor Emeritus at the [[University of Göttingen]] and used to be co-chair of the [[Bernstein Network|Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience Göttingen]].


==Honors and awards==
==Honors and awards==
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* [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] (1991, jointly with Bert Sakmann)<ref name=NobelBiog>{{cite web|url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/1991/neher/biographical/ |title=Erwin Neher Biographical |website=www.nobelprize.org |date=  |access-date=10 March 2021}}</ref>
* [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] (1991, jointly with Bert Sakmann)<ref name=NobelBiog>{{cite web|url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/1991/neher/biographical/ |title=Erwin Neher Biographical |website=www.nobelprize.org |date=  |access-date=10 March 2021}}</ref>
* [[Fellow of the Royal Society]] (1994)<ref name=formemrs/>
* [[Fellow of the Royal Society]] (1994)<ref name=formemrs/>
* [[Ralph W. Gerard Prize in Neuroscience]] (1991)
* [[Ralph W. Gerard Prize in Neuroscience]] (1991)<ref>{{Cite web |title=Ralph W. Gerard Prize in Neuroscience |url=https://www.sfn.org/careers/awards/outstanding-career-and-research-achievements-awards/ralph-w-gerard-prize |access-date=2025-07-18 |website=www.sfn.org |language=en}}</ref>
* [[Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize]] (1987)
* [[Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize]] (1987)<ref>{{Cite web |last=Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft |title=Liste der mit dem Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz-Preis Ausgezeichneten |url=https://www.dfg.de/resource/blob/169450/download-gwl-preis-uebersicht-leibniz-preistraeger-innen.pdf |access-date=2025-07-18 |website=www.dfg.de}}</ref>
* [[Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize]] (1986)
* [[Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize]] (1986)<ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-11-11 |title=1990 - 1981 Awardees |url=https://www.cuimc.columbia.edu/research/louisa-gross-horwitz-prize/horwitz-prize-awardees/1990-1981-awardees |access-date=2025-07-18 |website=Columbia University Irving Medical Center |language=en}}</ref>


Neher holds honorary degrees from:<ref name=NobelBiog/>
Neher holds honorary degrees from:<ref name=NobelBiog/>
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* Technical University of Munich, FRG, 1994
* Technical University of Munich, FRG, 1994
* University of Madrid, Spain, 1994
* University of Madrid, Spain, 1994
* Huazhong University of Sciences & Technology, Wuhan, PR China, 1994
* [[Huazhong University of Science & Technology|Huazhong University of Sciences & Technology]], Wuhan, PR China, 1994
* University of Bahía Blanca, Argentina, 1995
* University of Bahía Blanca, Argentina, 1995
* University of Rome, Italy, 1996
* University of Rome, Italy, 1996
* Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, 1999
* [[Hebrew University of Jerusalem]], Israel, 1999
* [[University of Pavia]], 2000
* [[University of Pavia]], 2000
* [[Oxford University]], 2025<ref>{{Cite web |date=2025-06-25 |title=Honorary degrees awarded at Encaenia 2025 {{!}} University of Oxford |url=https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2025-06-25-honorary-degrees-awarded-encaenia-2025 |access-date=2025-07-03 |website=www.ox.ac.uk |language=en}}</ref>


Neher was elected a [[List of Fellows of the Royal Society elected in 1994|Foreign Member of the Royal Society (ForMemRS) in 1994]].<ref name=formemrs>{{cite web|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151011204358/https://royalsociety.org/people/erwin-neher-11998/|archive-date=2015-10-11|url=https://royalsociety.org/people/erwin-neher-11998/|title=Professor Erwin Neher ForMemRS|publisher=[[Royal Society]]|location=London}}</ref>
Neher was elected a [[List of Fellows of the Royal Society elected in 1994|Foreign Member of the Royal Society (ForMemRS) in 1994]].<ref name=formemrs>{{cite web|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151011204358/https://royalsociety.org/people/erwin-neher-11998/|archive-date=2015-10-11|url=https://royalsociety.org/people/erwin-neher-11998/|title=Professor Erwin Neher ForMemRS|publisher=[[Royal Society]]|location=London}}</ref>

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Erwin Neher (Script error: No such module "IPA".; Template:IPAc-en;[1] born 20 March 1944) 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".[2][3][4]

Early life and education

Neher was born in Landsberg am Lech, Upper Bavaria, the son of Elisabeth (née Pfeiffer), a teacher, and Franz Xaver Neher, an executive at a dairy company.[5] He studied physics at the Technical University of Munich from 1963 to 1966.

In 1966, he was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to study in the US. He spent a year at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and earned a master's degree in biophysics. While at the laboratory of the Max-Planck-Institute for Biophysical Chemistry he met fellow scientist Eva-Maria Neher (born Ruhr), whom he married in 1978 and subsequently the couple had five children – Richard, Benjamin, Carola, Sigmund and Margret.Template:Sfn

In 2003 Neher was one of 22 Nobel Laureates who signed the Humanist Manifesto.[6]

Career

In 1986, he was awarded the Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize from Columbia University together with Bert Sakmann. In 1987, he received the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, which is the highest honour awarded in German research. Along with Bert Sakmann, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1991 for "their discoveries concerning the function of single ion channels in cells".[7] Neher and Sakmann were the first to record the currents of single ion channels on a live cell (they were first recorded using the lipid bilayer method) through their development of the patch-clamp technique,.[8][9][10][11] The methodology has been further developed with the strong encouragement of Charles F. Stevens in his laboratory at Yale University.

Since 1983, he became a director at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen and led the Department for Membrane Biophysics. He turned into an emeritus director of the Institute since 2011. He is also a Professor Emeritus at the University of Göttingen and used to be co-chair of the Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience Göttingen.

Honors and awards

Neher holds honorary degrees from:[12]

Neher was elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society (ForMemRS) in 1994.[13]

References

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