Erwin Neher

Erwin Neher (born March 20, 1944 in Landsberg am Lech, Bavaria) is a German biophysicist.

Erwin Neher 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 Masters Degree in Biophysics.

In 1986, he was awarded the Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize from Columbia University together with Bert Sakmann winner of 1991 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. 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 Medicine or Physiology in 1991 for the development of the patch-clamp technique  , work Neher began as a postdoctoral associate in the laboratory of Charles F. Stevens at Yale, and later continued at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen.