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Robert Huber

Robert Huber

Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics
Planegg, Bavaria, Germany

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Robert Huber is a German chemist, working primarily on research into protein structures. In 1988 he received, jointly with the German biophysicist Johann Deisenhofer and the German biochemist Hartmut Michel, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for decoding the three‐dimensional structure of the photosynthetic reaction center of purple bacteria. With their work, the researchers have provided fundamental insights into photosynthesis.