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Dr. Dr. h.c. (mult.) Kurt WÜTHRICH Nobel Laureate in Chemistry; Cecil H. and Ida M. Green Professor of Structural Biology, The Scripps Research Institute; Professor of Biophysics, Institute for Molecular Biology and Biophysics, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich

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1957-1962 Lizentiat in chemistry, physics and mathematics, University of Bern, Switzerland
1962-1964 Ph.D. in chemistry (Prof. S. Fallab); Eidgenössisches Turn- und Sportlehrerdiplom, University of Basel, Switzerland
1964-1965 Postdoctoral training (Prof. S. Fallab), University of Basel, Switzerland
1965-1967 Postdoctoral training (Prof. R.E. Connick), University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA
1967-1969 Member Technical Staff, Biophysics Department (Dr. R.G. Shulman), Bell Telephone Laboratories, Murray Hill, N.J., USA
1969 Privatdozent (1970), Assistant Professor (1972), Associate Professor (1976), Professor of Biophysics (1980); Chairman Biology Department (1995 2000), ETH Zurich, Switzerland
2001-2004 Cecil H. and Ida M. Green Visiting Professor of Structural Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA, USA
since 2004 Cecil H. and Ida M. Green Professor of Structural Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA, USA

Mitgliedschaften

Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina
Foreign Associate, US National Academy of Sciences
Associé étranger, Académie des Sciences, Institut de France
Foreign Member, The Royal Society, UK

Publikationen

NMR in Biological Research: Peptides and Proteins, North-Holland, Amsterdam, 1976
NMR of Proteins and Nucleic Acids, Wiley, New York, 1986
NMR in Structural Biology - a Collection of Papers by Kurt Wüthrich, World Scientific, Singapore, 1995
760 original papers and reviews.

Auszeichnungen

Marcel Benoist-Preis, Schweizerische Eidgenossenschaft 1992
Prix Louis Jeantet de Médecine, Fondation Louis Jeantet, Genf, Schweiz 1993
Kyoto Prize in Advanced Technology, Inamori Foundation, Kyoto, Japan 1998
Nobel-Preis in Chemie 2002