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Robert Huber

1937 - Today

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Robert Huber (German pronunciation: [ˈʁoːbɛʁt ˈhuːbɐ] ; born 20 February 1937) is a German biochemist and Nobel laureate. known for his work crystallizing an intramembrane protein important in photosynthesis and subsequently applying X-ray crystallography to elucidate the protein's structure. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Robert Huber is the 187th most popular chemist (down from 158th in 2019), the 701st most popular biography from Germany (up from 872nd in 2019) and the 34th most popular German Chemist. Learn more about Robert Huber's academic impact at Rankless.

Robert Huber is most famous for his work with the human genome. Huber was the first to publish the complete sequence of a human chromosome.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Robert Huber ranks 187 out of 602Before him are Marcellin Berthelot, Ernest Solvay, Charles Adolphe Wurtz, Fritz Albert Lipmann, Sidney Altman, and Gerhard Herzberg. After him are Louis Nicolas Vauquelin, Thomas A. Steitz, Peter D. Mitchell, Richard R. Schrock, Aaron Klug, and Julius Axelrod.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1937, Robert Huber ranks 36Before him are Vittorio Emanuele, Prince of Naples, Rifaat al-Assad, Alain Badiou, Colin Renfrew, Bruce McLaren, and Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga. After him are Philip Glass, Gordon Banks, Jared Diamond, David Hockney, Bettina Heinen-Ayech, and Bill Cosby.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Robert Huber ranks 701 out of 7,253Before him are Curd Jürgens (1915), Rudi Völler (1960), Gerhard Herzberg (1904), John Frederick I, Elector of Saxony (1503), Erich Mielke (1907), and Johannes Peter Müller (1801). After him are Walter Hallstein (1901), Prince William of Hesse-Kassel (1787), Princess Augusta Wilhelmine of Hesse-Darmstadt (1765), Frederick IV, Elector Palatine (1574), Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg (1795), and Richard Baer (1911).

Among CHEMISTS In Germany

Among chemists born in Germany, Robert Huber ranks 34Before him are Hermann Kolbe (1818), Martin Heinrich Klaproth (1743), Feodor Lynen (1911), Georg Wittig (1897), Felix Hoffmann (1868), and Gerhard Herzberg (1904). After him are Johann Deisenhofer (1943), Georg Ernst Stahl (1659), Joachim Frank (1940), Hartmut Michel (1948), August Wilhelm von Hofmann (1818), and Hennig Brand (1630).