Kurt Wuthrich life and biography

Swiss chemist Kurt Wüthrich has studied molecular structural biology and structural genomics, and developed the nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) method for determining the three-dimensional structure of proteins and nucleic acids in an artificial solution that closely resembles the conditions found in living cells. With his colleagues, he has resolved numerous NMR structures of proteins and nucleic acids, including prion proteins from numerous species and peptidylprolyl isomerase A (cyclophilin A), also known as PPIA, a regulatory gene found in humans and other mammals. The first complete determination of a protein structure via Wüthrich's method was accomplished in 1985, and in 2002 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for chemistry. He has also studied the biology, structure and function of proteins and nucleic acids; development of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) techniques for macromolecular structure determination in solution and for studies of intermolecular interactions; applications in structuralgenomics, proteomics and biomedical research.

Awards:

SSB Friedrich Miescher Prize 1974
Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize 1991
Marcel Benoist Award 1992
CRC Kaj Linderstrøm-Lang Medal 1996
Kyoto Prize 1998
GSBMB Otto Warburg Medal 1999
Nobel Prize for Chemistry 2002 (with John B. Fenn and Koichi Tanaka)
ACS Ralph and Helen Oesper Award 2010
Bell Laboratories Biophysics Dept. (1967-69)
Academia Europaea 1989
American Academy of Arts and Sciences Foreign Member, 1993
American Association for the Advancement of Science Foreign Member, 1998
European Academy of Arts, Sciences, and Humanities 2003
European Academy of Sciences and Arts 2004
European Molecular Biology Organization 1984
German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina Foreign Member, 1987
Hungarian Academy of Sciences Foreign Member, 2004
Indian National Science Academy Foreign Member, 1989
Institut de France Foreign Member, 2000
International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry 2002
Japanese Biochemical Society Foreign Member, 1993
Korean Academy of Science and Technology Foreign Member, 2005
National Academy of Sciences Foreign Member, 1992
Royal Society Foreign Member, 2010
Royal Society of Chemistry Foreign Member, 2003
Royal Society of Edinburgh Foreign Member, 2003
Swiss Academy of Engineering Sciences 2001
Swiss Academy of Medical Sciences 2002
Swiss Chemical Society 2003
World Innovation Foundation 2003

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