Sakmann

[ zahk-mahn ]

noun

1. Bert(old) [ber, -tawlt], born 1942, German physiologist: Nobel Prize 1991.

Example Sentences

The crucial data were obtained by Neher and Sakmann using patch clamp.

From Nature

In 1976, Erwin Neher and Bert Sakmann developed the patch-clamp technique, which showed definitively that currents result from the opening of many channel proteins in the membrane1.

From Nature

For this work, Neher and Sakmann were awarded the 1991 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

From Nature

Sakmann’s solution in the 1990s was to carry out simultaneous whole-cell recording using two or three electrodes, which to some seemed excessive because comparable data could be obtained by sequential recordings using fewer electrodes.

From Nature

In collaboration with Alan Hawkes, the necessary mathematics was worked out for the interpretation of experiments done initially with Bert Sakmann, who, with Erwin Neher, got the Nobel prize in 1991 for discovering how to record from single molecules.

From The Guardian