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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 188,857 page views. Her biography is available in 40 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 38 in 2019). Jacques Dubochet is the 218th most popular chemist (up from 274th in 2019), the 114th most popular biography from Switzerland (up from 148th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Swiss Chemist.

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  • 40

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  • 9.39

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  • 2.52

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Jacques Dubochet ranks 218 out of 509Before her are Ronald George Wreyford Norrish, Derek Barton, Aziz Sancar, Elias James Corey, Osamu Shimomura, and Kaoru Ishikawa. After her are Leo Baekeland, Michael Smith, Arieh Warshel, John Pople, Alfred G. Gilman, and Herbert C. Brown.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1942, Jacques Dubochet ranks 105Before her are Maria Kaczyńska, Robert H. Grubbs, John McLaughlin, Karen Grassle, Bob Ross, and Valeri Polyakov. After her are Britt Ekland, Hannu Mikkola, Gottfried John, Amine Gemayel, Michael York, and Margarethe von Trotta.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Jacques Dubochet ranks 114 out of 876Before her are Hans Urs von Balthasar (1905), Charles Bonnet (1720), Anna Göldi (1734), Princess Maria Teresa of Bourbon-Two Sicilies (1867), Henri Guisan (1874), and Judith of Habsburg (1271). After her are Gottfried Keller (1819), Paul Guldin (1577), Jean-Étienne Liotard (1702), Heinrich Bullinger (1504), Sigismond Thalberg (1812), and Jacob Sprenger (1435).

Among CHEMISTS In Switzerland

Among chemists born in Switzerland, Jacques Dubochet ranks 6Before 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), Jean Charles Galissard de Marignac (1817), Nicolas Théodore de Saussure (1767), Jacques-Louis Soret (1827), and Marc Delafontaine (1838).