- Robert Huber
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name = Robert Huber
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caption = Robert Huber
birth_date =February 20 ,1937
birth_place =Munich
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nationality =Germany
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field =Biochemist
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known_for =Cyanobacteria Crystallography
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prizes =Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1988
footnotes =Robert Huber is a German
biochemist andNobel laureate .He was born
20 February 1937 inMunich where his father, Sebastian, was a bank cashier. He was educated at the Humanistische Karls-Gymnasium from 1947 to 1956 and then studiedchemistry at the Technische Hochschule, receiving his diploma in 1960. He stayed, and did research into usingcrystallography to elucidate the structure oforganic compounds .In 1971 he became a director at the
Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry where his team developed methods for the crystallography ofprotein s.In 1988 he received the
Nobel Prize for Chemistry jointly withJohann Deisenhofer andHartmut Michel . The trio were recognized for their work in first crystallizing an intramembrane protein important in photosynthesis incyanobacteria , and subsequently applying X-ray crystallography to quantify the protein's structure. The information provided the first insight into the structural bodies that performed the integral function of photosynthesis. This insight could be translated to understand the more complex analogue of photosynthesis in plants. [cite journal
author = J. Deisenhofer, O. Epp, K. Miki, R. Huber & H. Michel
title = Structure of the protein subunits in the photosynthetic reaction centre of Rhodopseudomonas viridis at 3Å resolution
year = 1985
volume= 318
issue = 6047
pages = 618–624
doi = 10.1038/318618a0
journal = Nature]He is married with four children.
He has recently taken up a post at the
Cardiff University and will spearhead the development of Structural Biology at the university on a part time basis.External links
* [http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/1988/huber-autobio.html Autobiographical information at www.nobel.org]
Publications
Robert Huber was one of the original editors of the [http://mrw.interscience.wiley.com/emrw/0470-027312/home Encyclopedia of Analytical Chemistry]
References
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