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Jacques Dubochet
Swiss biophysicist / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jacques Dubochet (born 8 June 1942)[1] is a retired Swiss biophysicist.[2][3] 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]
Jacques Dubochet | |
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![]() Dubochet in 2017 | |
Born | (1942-06-08) 8 June 1942 (age 82) |
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) |
Doctoral advisor | Eduard Kellenberger |
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] He received the Royal Photographic Society Progress Medal, alongside his colleagues Professor Joachim Frank and Dr Richard Henderson, in 2018 for 'an important advance in the scientific or technological development of photography or imaging in the widest sense'.[7]