Jacques Dubochet, along with Joachim Frank and Richard Henderson, was awarded 2017 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
On Wednesday, Jacques Dubochet, along with Joachim Frank and Richard Henderson, were awarded the 2017 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for ‘developing cryo-electron microscopy for the high-resolution structure determination of biomolecules in solution’.
Professor Dubochet, an honorary professor of biophysics has a CV which is a delightful reminder that sometimes men of science, like Einstein and Feynman, can have a delicious sense of humour as well.
The honorary professor of biophysics has a delightfully tongue-in-cheek CV in which he states that in 1941 he was ‘conceived by optimistic parents’ and in 46 stopped being ‘scared of the dark’ because the ‘sun comes back as Copernicus explained it’.
Read his full CV below:
Prof. Jacques Dubochet - Honorary Professor of biophysics
Previous director of the Laboratory of Ultrastructural Analysis (LAU) and of the
Centre of Electron Microscopy.
Past researches and actual interests
Curriculum Vitae
October 1941
Conceived by optimistic parents.
1946
No longer scared of the dark, because the sun comes back; it was Copernicus who explained this.
1948-55
1st part of an experimental scientific career in Vallis and Lausanne (instruments: knives, needles, strings, matches).
1955
First official dyslexic in the canton of Vaud - this permitted being bad at everything ... and to understand those with difficulties.
1962
Federal maturity exam.
1967
Physicist-engineer at EPUL to become biologist. 1968 Very important.
1969
Certificate of Molecular Biology at Geneva to become biophysicist. Began to study electron microscopy of DNA, which remains my main topic.
1973
Thesis in biophysics at Geneva and Basle with Eduard Kellenberger who taught me biophysics, ethical responsibility and durable friendship.
1970 -76
Very classic psychoanalysis 1978 Group leader at EMBL (Heidelberg); how to introduce water in electron microscopy. Discovery of water vitrification and development of cryo-electron microscopy.
1987
Professor at l'UNIL, Department of Ultrastructural Analyis.
1998
Président of the Biology section with the chance to perform this assignment with Nicole Galland and Pierre Hainard, and to live at a moment when interesting things were happening in biology in Lausanne.
2002
(start) End of the assignment. Sabbatical in Australia, Germany and Paris. 2004-7 Maturation of CEMOVIS (cryo-electron microscopy of vitreous sections).
2007
June Retirement Colloquium.
2007 Host of the Dpt. of Ecology and Evolution. Science and Society for elderly.
Scientists Jacques Dubochet, Joachim Frank and Richard Henderson were awarded the Nobel Chemistry Prize today for cryo-electron microscopy, a simpler and better method for imaging tiny, frozen molecules. Thanks to their team's new "cool method", involving electron beams to photograph bits of cells, "researchers can now routinely produce three-dimensional structures of biomolecules", the Nobel chemistry committee said. "Researchers can now freeze biomolecules mid-movement and visualise processes they have never previously seen, which is decisive for both the basic understanding of life's chemistry and for the development of pharmaceuticals," the committee added. This method allows bio-molecules to be kept frozen in their natural state without the need for dyes or fixatives. It is used study the tiniest details of cell structures, viruses and proteins. "When researchers began to suspect that the Zika virus was causing the epidemic of brain-damaged newborns in Brazil, they turned to cryo-EM (electron microscopy) to visualise the virus," the committee said. The prize comes with nine million Swedish kronor (around USD 1.1 million or 943,100 euros).
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