Robert Huber (1937- )

Awarded the Prize “for the determination of the three-dimensional structure of a photosynthetic reaction centre.”

German chemist. Huber was born on February 20, 1937 in München. In 1956 he graduted from the Technische Hochschule, where he also made the Diploma in Chemistry in 1960 received his Ph.D. there in 1963. In 1971 he took the chair at the University of Basel of structural biology at the Biozentrum the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft the position of a director at the Max-Planck-Institut für Biochemie. He became Professor of Technische Universitat München in 1976.