Jacques Dubochet

Jacques Dubochet
Jacques Dubochet
	Dubochet in 2017
Born	8 June 1942 (age 81); Aigle, Switzerland
Citizenship	Switzerland
Education	École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (BS); University of Geneva (MS); University of Geneva (PhD) University of Basel (PhD)
Known for	Cryo-electron microscopy
Awards	Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2017)
	Scientific career
Fields	Structural biology; Cryo-electron microscopy
Institutions	European Molecular Biology Laboratory (1978-1987); University of Lausanne (since 1987)
Thesis	Contribution to the use of dark-field electron microscopy in biology (1974)
Doctoral advisor	Eduard Kellenberger

Jacques Dubochet (born 8 June 1942)^[1] is a retired Swiss biophysicist.^[2]^[3] He was born in Aigle, Switzerland.

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.^[3]^[4]

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".^[5]^[6]

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Jacques Dubochet
Dubochet in 2017
Born	(1942-06-08) 8 June 1942 (age 81) Aigle, Switzerland
Citizenship	Switzerland
Education	École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (BS) University of Geneva (MS) University of Geneva (PhD) University of Basel (PhD)
Known for	Cryo-electron microscopy
Awards	Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2017)
Scientific career
Fields	Structural biology Cryo-electron microscopy
Institutions	European Molecular Biology Laboratory (1978-1987) University of Lausanne (since 1987)
Thesis	Contribution to the use of dark-field electron microscopy in biology (1974)
Doctoral advisor	Eduard Kellenberger