Up for auction the "Nobel Prize in Chemistry" Robert Huber Hand Signed 3X5 B&W Photo.
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Robert
Huber (born 20 February
1937) is a Germanbiochemist and Nobel laureate. known for his work crystallizing an intramembrane protein important in photosynthesis and subsequently applying X-ray
crystallography to elucidate the protein's structure. He was born on 20
February 1937 in Munich where his father, Sebastian,
was a bank cashier. He was educated at the Humanistisches Karls-Gymnasium from
1947 to 1956 and then studied chemistry at the Technische Hochschule,
receiving his diploma in 1960. He stayed, and did research into using crystallography to elucidate the structure of organic compounds. In 1971 he became a director at the Max Planck
Institute for Biochemistry where his team developed methods for
the crystallography of proteins. In 1988 he received the Nobel Prize for Chemistry jointly
with Johann Deisenhofer and Hartmut Michel. The trio were recognized for their work in
first crystallizing an intramembrane protein important in photosynthesis in purple bacteria, and subsequently applying X-ray
crystallography to elucidate the protein's structure. The information provided
the first insight into the structural bodies that performed the integral
function of photosynthesis. This insight could be translated to understand the
more complex analogue of photosynthesis in cyanobacteriawhich is essentially the same as that
in chloroplasts of
higher plants. In 2006, he took up a post at the Cardiff University to
spearhead the development of Structural Biology at the university on a
part-time basis.Since
2005 he has been doing research at the Center for medical biotechnology of
the University of
Duisburg-Essen. Huber was one of the original editors of the Encyclopedia of Analytical Chemistry