Dr. Gunter
Blobel, a scientist at New York's Rockefellar University, won the Nobel
Prize in medicine on Monday, October 11, 1999.
He won
the prize for discovering how proteins find their correct places in
cells. This process happens abnormally in diseases such as cystic fibrosis.
Blobel
moved to the United States in the 1960's. He is originally from Waltersdarf,
Germany. He officially became a U.S. citizen in 1980. He says that the
research for the prize he won this week began back in the 1970's.
Dr. Blobel
will donate the prize money, which totals $960,000, to charity.
