CHEMIST

Kurt Wüthrich

1938 - Today

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Kurt Wüthrich (born 4 October 1938 in Aarberg, Canton of Bern) is a Swiss chemist/biophysicist and Nobel Chemistry laureate, known for developing nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) methods for studying biological macromolecules. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Kurt Wüthrich has received more than 163,221 page views. His biography is available in 54 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 51 in 2019). Kurt Wüthrich is the 139th most popular chemist (up from 145th in 2019), the 82nd most popular biography from Switzerland (up from 89th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Swiss Chemist.

Kurt Wüthrich is most famous for his work in the field of molecular biology. His research has led to a better understanding of how cells divide and how DNA is repaired. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2002 for his work on the structure and function of the ribosome.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Kurt Wüthrich ranks 139 out of 602. Before him are William Howard Stein, Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky, Jean-Pierre Sauvage, Glenn T. Seaborg, Marie-Anne Paulze Lavoisier, and Joachim Frank. After him are Willard Libby, Louis Nicolas Vauquelin, Sune Bergström, John Newlands, Christian B. Anfinsen, and James Dewar.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1938, Kurt Wüthrich ranks 51. Before him are Ahmed Qurei, Jean Giraud, Jiří Menzel, Alpha Condé, Raymond Carver, and Ayaz Mutallibov. After him are Viktor Chernomyrdin, Frederick Forsyth, Issey Miyake, Lynn Margulis, Oliver Reed, and Joyce Carol Oates.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Kurt Wüthrich ranks 82 out of 1,015. Before him are Alejo Carpentier (1904), Sigismond Thalberg (1812), Werner Arber (1929), Friedrich Miescher (1844), Johann Ludwig Burckhardt (1784), and Félix Vallotton (1865). After him are Max Frisch (1911), Heinrich Wölfflin (1864), Alfred Cortot (1877), Humbert I, Count of Savoy (980), Johann Jakob Bachofen (1815), and Roger Federer (1981).

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Among CHEMISTS In Switzerland

Among chemists born in Switzerland, Kurt Wüthrich ranks 4. Before him are Albert Hofmann (1906), Paul Hermann Müller (1899), and Richard R. Ernst (1933). After him are Germain Henri Hess (1802), Jacques Dubochet (1942), 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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