Jacques Dubochet
Jacques Dubochet (born 8 June 1942)[1] is a retired Swiss biophysicist.[2][3] He was born in Aigle, Switzerland.
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| Born | 8 June 1942
(aged 83) |
| Citizenship | Switzerland |
| Education | École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (BS) University of Geneva (MS) University of Geneva (PhD) University of Basel (PhD) |
| Known for | Cryo-electron microscopy |
| Awards | Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2017) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Structural biology Cryo-electron microscopy |
| Institutions | European Molecular Biology Laboratory (1978-1987) University of Lausanne (since 1987) |
| Thesis | Contribution to the use of dark-field electron microscopy in biology (1974) |
He is a former researcher at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory in Heidelberg, Germany, and an honorary professor of biophysics at the University of Lausanne in Switzerland.[3][4]
In 2017, he received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry together with Joachim Frank and Richard Henderson "for developing cryo-electron microscopy for the high-resolution structure determination of biomolecules in solution".[5][6]
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Dubochet at the Nobel Prize press conference in Stockholm (December 2017)
Parking Place Reserved for Jacques Dubochet on the University of Lausanne Campus
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References
- ↑ Members' Directory - EMBL. www.embl.itEuropean Molecular Biology Laboratory. Retrieved 4 October 2017.
- ↑ Dubochet, Jacques. A Reminiscence about Early Times of Vitreous Water in Electron Cryomicroscopy. Biophysical Journal 110 (4) (February 2016). p. 756–757. doi:10.1016/j.bpj.2015.07.049.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Wilson, Rosemary. Science, society & serendipity (24 August 2015)European Molecular Biology Laboratory. Retrieved 4 October 2017.
- ↑ Nouveaux professeurs honoraires 2007 (in fr)University of Lausanne. p. 13. Retrieved 4 October 2017.
- ↑ The 2017 Nobel Prize in Chemistry - Press Release. www.nobelprize.org (4 October 2017). Retrieved 4 October 2017.
- ↑ "Nobel Prize in Chemistry Awarded for Cryo-Electron Microscopy". The New York Times. October 4, 2017. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/04/science/nobel-prize-chemistry.html. Retrieved 4 October 2017.