Huber Robert

Corresponding members II. Department of Mathematical, Physical and Chemical Sciences
Huber Robert

Date of birth:

  • 1937

Place of birth:

  • München

Emails:

Huber Robert

Corresponding members II. Department of Mathematical, Physical and Chemical Sciences

Winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1988

Academic titles:

  • Doctor of Science
  • full professor, retired

Membership in the Academy:

  • corresponding member – Department of Mathematical, Physical and Chemical Sciences (6/18/1992 – …)

Curriculum Vitae

Robert Huber, a German biochemist, was born in Munich on February 20, 1937. He was an associate (1971 – 2001) and director emeritus (from 2005 to 2009) of the  Biochemical Institute “Max Planck” in Planegg-Martinsried and professor of the Technical University of Munich.

He is a prominent expert in determining the structure of large biological molecules by diffraction of X-rays. In 1988, with J. Deisenhofer and H. Michel, he shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for determining the structure of a protein complex essential for photosynthesis in bacteria.

Since 1992 he has been a correspondent member of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts.



Winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1988