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Jacques Dubochet

1942 - Today

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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'. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jacques Dubochet is the 251st most popular chemist (down from 226th in 2019), the 111th most popular biography from Switzerland (up from 119th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Swiss Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Jacques Dubochet ranks 251 out of 602. Before her are Arieh Warshel, Henri Victor Regnault, Luis Federico Leloir, Mario J. Molina, Kary Mullis, and Emil Abderhalden. After her are Ryōji Noyori, Johan August Arfwedson, Richard Smalley, Carolyn R. Bertozzi, Mária Telkes, and Ida Noddack.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1942, Jacques Dubochet ranks 97. Before her are Caetano Veloso, Věra Čáslavská, John Clauser, Gilberto Gil, Jean-Claude Trichet, and Giuseppe Bertello. After her are Oliviero Toscani, Milan Milutinović, Tony Buzan, Margarethe von Trotta, Daniel Dennett, and Mehran Karimi Nasseri.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Jacques Dubochet ranks 111 out of 1,015. Before her are Louis Agassiz (1807), Louis Chevrolet (1878), Jakob Steiner (1796), Henri Guisan (1874), Gianni Infantino (1970), and Emil Abderhalden (1877). After her are Alexander Agassiz (1835), Henri-Frédéric Amiel (1821), César Ritz (1850), Abraham-Louis Breguet (1747), Charles Bonnet (1720), and Jean Charles Léonard de Sismondi (1773).

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Among CHEMISTS In Switzerland

Among chemists born in Switzerland, Jacques Dubochet ranks 6. Before her are Albert Hofmann (1906), Paul Hermann Müller (1899), Richard R. Ernst (1933), Kurt Wüthrich (1938), and Emil Abderhalden (1877). After her are Germain Henri Hess (1802), Nicolas Théodore de Saussure (1767), Jean Charles Galissard de Marignac (1817), Victor Goldschmidt (1888), Jacques-Louis Soret (1827), and Albert Eschenmoser (1925).

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