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Jacques Dubochet

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Swiss chemist

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Works
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Top works

  • Contribution to the use of dark-field electron microscopy in biology
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Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
Belgium
Active from
1929-04-08
Active to
1978-10-09
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Quotes

  • [...] knowledge is our greatest wealth and the love of others the most beautiful human value.
  • Reasonably, all these [fossil fuel] investments are financial dead-ends or ecological disasters.
  • To control global warming, only one solution: stop burning fossil fuels.
  • Today, our developed nations live in opulence, excess and waste, with the consequences that our environment is degrading and the climate is wreaked.

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Key facts

Born
( 1942-06-08 ) 8 June 1942 (age 83) , Aigle , Switzerland
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)
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

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Nobel Prize

  • The Nobel Prize in Chemistry2017

    for developing cryo-electron microscopy for the high-resolution structure determination of biomolecules in solution

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
human
Given name
Jacques
Gender
male
Citizenship
Switzerland
Place of birth
Aigle
Position held
professor
Languages spoken
French
Religion
atheism
Field of work
structural biology
Official website
www.unil.ch/dubochet
Image
Jacques Dubochet, 2017 (cropped).jpg
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date of birth
1942-06-08
Commons category
Jacques Dubochet
official blog URL
www.dubochet.ch/jacques
name in native language
Jacques Dubochet
maintained by WikiProject
WikiProject Mathematics
medical condition
dyslexia
interested in
biophysics
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Encyclopedic overview

Jacques Dubochet (born 8 June 1942) is a retired Swiss biophysicist. 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.

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". 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'.

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