Robert Huber is a German biochemist and Nobel laureate.
11 Facts About Robert Huber
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Robert Huber was born on 20 February 1937 in Munich where his father, Sebastian, was a bank cashier.
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Robert Huber was educated at the Humanistisches Karls-Gymnasium from 1947 to 1956 and then studied chemistry at the Technische Hochschule, receiving his diploma in 1960.
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Robert Huber stayed, and did research into using crystallography to elucidate the structure of organic compounds.
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Robert Huber was elected a member of Pour le Merite for Sciences and Arts, in 1993 and Foreign Member of the Royal Society in 1999.
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Robert Huber has built up, led and still leads the most productive protein crystallography laboratory in Europe.
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Robert Huber then demonstrated that the tertiary fold of the polypeptide chain in the haemoglobin of the fly larva chironomus closely resembled that in Kendrew's sperm whale myoglobin, indicating for the first time that this fold had been preserved throughout evolution.
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In parallel with this work, Robert Huber solved the structures of several immunoglobulin fragments.
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Robert Huber was the first to determine the structure of the complement-activating F-fragment, which was the first variable and the first constant domains in Fab-fragments.
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Robert Huber shared the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1988 with Michel and Deisenhofer for their determination of the remarkable and supremely important structures of the photochemical reaction centre of Rhodopseudomonas viridis and of phycocyanin, the light harvesting protein of the blue-green alga Mastiglocadus laminosus.
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Robert Huber has solved the structure of an important class of calcium binding proteins - the annexins.