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Jacques Dubochet

1942 - Today

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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. 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". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jacques Dubochet has received more than 196,552 page views. Her biography is available in 44 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 40 in 2019). Jacques Dubochet is the 226th most popular chemist (down from 218th in 2019), the 119th most popular biography from Switzerland (down from 114th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Swiss Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Jacques Dubochet ranks 226 out of 602. Before her are Derek Barton, Aaron Klug, Rodney Robert Porter, Alfred G. Gilman, William Lipscomb, and Herbert C. Brown. After her are Hartmut Michel, Paul-Émile Lecoq de Boisbaudran, S. P. L. Sørensen, Hideki Shirakawa, Leo Baekeland, and Luis Federico Leloir.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1942, Jacques Dubochet ranks 102. Before her are Milan Milutinović, Michael York, Daniela Bianchi, Margarethe von Trotta, Scott Wilson, and Mike Newell. After her are Conrad Schumann, Daniel Dennett, Prince Michael of Kent, Barry Levinson, Bob Ross, and Larry Flynt.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Jacques Dubochet ranks 119 out of 1,015. Before her are César Ritz (1850), Jean-Étienne Liotard (1702), Carla Del Ponte (1947), Gottfried Keller (1819), Micheline Calmy-Rey (1945), and Jakob Steiner (1796). After her are Charles Bonnet (1720), Annemarie Schwarzenbach (1908), Paul Guldin (1577), Blaise Cendrars (1887), Hans Urs von Balthasar (1905), and Matthäus Merian (1593).

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Among CHEMISTS In Switzerland

Among chemists born in Switzerland, Jacques Dubochet ranks 6. Before her are Albert Hofmann (1906), Paul Hermann Müller (1899), Richard R. Ernst (1933), Kurt Wüthrich (1938), and Germain Henri Hess (1802). After her are Emil Abderhalden (1877), Victor Goldschmidt (1888), Nicolas Théodore de Saussure (1767), Jean Charles Galissard de Marignac (1817), Jacques-Louis Soret (1827), and Albert Eschenmoser (1925).

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