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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.
Group leader at EMBL (Heidelberg); how to deal with water in electron microscopy. Discovery of water vitrification and development of electron cryo-microscopy. The newly formed European Molecular Biology Laboratory, hidden in a beautiful forest above the old city of Heidelberg, was a kind of paradise for research.
Born: 8 June 1942, Aigle, Switzerland. Affiliation at the time of the award: University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland. Prize motivation: “for developing cryo-electron microscopy for the high-resolution structure determination of biomolecules in solution” Prize share: 1/3. Life. Jacques Dubochet was born in Aigle, Switzerland.
Jun 4, 2024 · Jacques Dubochet is a Swiss biophysicist who succeeded in vitrifying water around biomolecules, thereby preventing the formation of ice crystals in biological specimens. Dubochet discovered that water could retain its liquid form at freezing temperatures if it was cooled very rapidly in liquid.
Oct 12, 2017 · Jacques Dubochet, Joachim Frank and Richard Henderson were awarded the prize on 4 October for their work in developing cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM), a technique that fires beams of...
Jacques Dubochet delivered his Nobel Lecture on 8 December 2017 at the Aula Magna, Stockholm University. He was introduced by Professor Peter Brzezinski, Member of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry. Early cryo-electron microscopy: Lecture slides. Pdf 5.8 MB. Copyright ©: Jacques Dubochet. Read the Nobel Lecture. Pdf 7 MB.
Oct 4, 2017 · EMBL alumnus Jacques Dubochet has been named as a co-recipient of the 2017 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing cryo-electron microscopy to determine the structure of the molecular building blocks of life in high resolution.
