Kurt Wüthrich

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Kurt Wüthrich is a Swiss chemist and Nobel laureate renowned for pioneering the use of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy to determine the three-dimensional structures of biological macromolecules.


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instanceOf Nobel laureate
biophysicist
chemist
human
awardReceived Kyoto Prize in Advanced Technology
Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize
Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Otto Warburg Medal
Paracelsus Prize
Wolf Prize in Chemistry
countryOfCitizenship Switzerland
educatedAt University of Basel
University of Bern
employer ETH Zurich
The Scripps Research Institute
familyName Wüthrich
fieldOfWork biophysics
chemistry
nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy
structural biology
givenName Kurt
hasResearchInterest biological macromolecules
protein structure
solution-state NMR
structural characterization of proteins
influencedBy developments in nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy
knownFor development of NMR spectroscopy for determining the three-dimensional structure of biological macromolecules in solution
pioneering work in biomolecular NMR
languageSpoken English
German
memberOf American Academy of Arts and Sciences
German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
Swiss Academy of Sciences
US National Academy of Sciences
name Kurt Wüthrich
nationality Swiss
notableStudent Ad Bax
Gerhard Wagner
notableWork contributions to the structure determination of proteins by NMR
development of NMR methods for protein structure determination in solution
occupation researcher
university teacher
sexOrGender male


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