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ErwinNeher, along with Bert Sakmann, was awarded the 1991Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for the development of the patch clamp technique.
Neher was born in Landsberg, Germany, on March 20, 1944, the son of Franz Xavier Neher and Elisabeth Pfeiffer Neher.
Neher found that by using a light suction with a super clean pipette, he could create a high-resistance seal of 10-100 gigohms (a gigohm is a measure of electrical resistance equal to one billion ohms).