Jacques Dubochet | |
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![]() Dubochet in 2017 | |
Born | |
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 |
Jacques Dubochet (born 8 June 1942)[1] is a retired Swiss biophysicist.[2][3] He was born in Aigle, Switzerland.
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]