Günter Blobel was a Silesian German and American biologist and 1999 Nobel Prize laureate in Physiology for the discovery that proteins have intrinsic signals that govern their transport and localization in the cell. The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1999, announced October 11, 1999. Günter Blobel, “for the discovery that proteins have intrinsic signals that govern their transport and localization in the cell”. Günter Blobel: born 1936, Waltersdorf, Germany (now Niegoslawice, Poland). Wiki link Data: the Nobel Foundation (CC0).