Robert Huber
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Robert Huber (born 20 February 1937) is a German biochemist and Nobel Laureate.
known for his work crystallizing an intramembrane protein important in photosynthesis and then using X-ray crystallography to clarify the protein's structure.
Education and early life
He was born on February 20, 1937 in Munich, where his father, Sebastian, was a bank cashier. He studied at the Humanistische Karls-Gymnasium from 1947 to 1956 and then went to chemistry at the Technische Hochschule, receiving his diploma in 1960. He stayed and did experimental work into using crystallography to clarify organic compounds' structure.
Personal life
Huber is married and has four children.
Career
In 1971, he was appointed as a director at the Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry, where his team developed methods for protein crystallization.
He received the Nobel Prize for Chemistry with Johann Deisenhofer and Hartmut Michel in 1988. The trio was praised for their efforts in the first crystallization of an intramembrane protein important in photosynthesis in purple bacteria and then using X-ray crystallography to clarify the protein's structure. The results provided the first glimpse at the structural organs that underwent the basic function of photosynthesis. This knowledge could be used to analyze the more complicated analogue of photosynthesis in cyanobacteria, which is essentially the same as that in chloroplasts of higher plants.
Huber and Karl Stetter discovered a new species of thermophilic bacteria on Kolbeinsey Ridge in 1992 and named it A. pyrophilus.
He began working at Cardiff University in 2006 to help with the University's Structural Biology department's research on a part-time basis.
He has been doing research at the University of Duisburg-Essen's Center for Medical Biotechnology since 2005.
Huber was one of the first editors of the Encyclopedia of Analytical Chemistry.