Erwin Neher's Birth Card: The 3 of Diamonds

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Erwin Neher (born 20 March 1944) is a German biophysicist, specializing in the field of cell physiology. The birth-card coordinate for March 20 is the 3 of Diamonds — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1991 Physiology or Medicine prize.

Nobel Prize record

• 1991 The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — for their discoveries concerning the function of single ion channels in cells

The 3 of Diamonds coordinate

Erwin Neher's birthday maps to the 3 of Diamonds (The Success Communicator). Card Blueprints treats that as a 365-day coordinate: solar value = 55 − (2 × month + day), and the year is unused. It is not a prediction about a Nobel Prize and not a verdict on Erwin Neher. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You keep more than one path alive without letting any of them stay imaginary.

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Erwin Neher in the public record

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". 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. 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. In 2003 Neher was one of 22 Nobel Laureates who signed the Humanist Manifesto. In 1986, he was awarded the Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize from Columbia University together with Bert Sakmann.

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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.

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Also on the record

1. In 1987, he received the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, which is the highest honour awarded in German research.
2. 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".
3. 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.
4. The methodology has been further developed with the strong encouragement of Charles F.

Other laureates with this card

• Alfonso García Robles — 1982 Peace
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• Bengt Holmström — 2016 Economic Sciences
• Charles K. Kao — 2009 Physics
• Dan Shechtman — 2011 Chemistry
• David Julius — 2021 Physiology or Medicine
• Derek Barton — 1969 Chemistry
• Elias James Corey — 1990 Chemistry
• Ernest T.S. Walton — 1951 Physics
• Frédéric Mistral — 1904 Literature
• Gary Becker — 1992 Economic Sciences
• 20 more laureates share this card.

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What is Erwin Neher's birth card?

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