Kurt Wüthrich

Kurt Wüthrich at a lecture at the European Forum Alpbach in September 2005

Kurt Wüthrich (born October 4, 1938 in Aarberg ) is a Swiss chemist and Nobel Prize winner .

Wüthrich attended the German Gymnasium Biel and studied chemistry , physics and mathematics in Bern from 1957 to 1962 and received his doctorate in 1964 at the University of Basel ; his mentor was Silvio Fallab . This was followed by stays at the University of California, Berkeley (postdoctoral fellow with Robert E. Connick , 1965-1967) and at Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill ( Robert G. Shulman , 1967-1969). In 1969 he returned to Switzerland and worked from then on at the ETH in Zurich with Robert Schwyzer . There he became a private lecturer in 1970, assistant professor in 1972, associate professor in 1976 and finally in 1980 he was appointed professor of biophysics.

Wüthrich has been a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina since 1987 and the National Academy of Sciences since 2008. He has also been admitted to the National Academy of Sciences (1992), the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1993), the Académie des sciences (2000), the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (2004), the Royal Society (2010) and the Academia Europaea accepted. In 1991 he was awarded the Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize . In 1999 he received the Otto Warburg Medal .

In 2001 he was also appointed Cecil H. and Ida M. Green Visiting Professor of Structural Biology at the Scripps Research Institute .

Wüthrich became famous for his groundbreaking work on the structure determination of proteins using nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy . Together with John B. Fenn and Koichi Tanaka , he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2002.

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Commons : Kurt Wüthrich - Collection of images, videos and audio files

↑ Member entry of Kurt Wüthrich (with picture and CV) at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on July 20, 2016.

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SURNAME	Wüthrich, Kurt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Swiss chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2002
DATE OF BIRTH	October 4, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH	Aarberg