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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
- Occupation
- molecular biologist
- Position held
- professor
- Employer
- University of Lausanne
- Political party
- Social Democratic Party of Switzerland
- Languages spoken
- French
- Religion
- atheism
- Field of work
- structural biology
- Movement
- environmentalism
- 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'.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Jacques Dubochet” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.