Kurt Wüthrich

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Kurt Wüthrich
Wüthrich in 2022
Born (1938-10-04) 4 October 1938 (age 85)
Aarberg, Switzerland
Alma mater
  • Universität Bern
  • Universität Basel
Known forProtein NMR
Transverse relaxation-optimized spectroscopy
ST2-PT
Awards
Scientific career
Fields
Institutions
Doctoral advisorSilvio Fallab[2]
Websitewww.scripps.edu/wuthrich

Kurt Wüthrich (born 4 October 1938 in

macromolecules.[3][4][5][6][7]

Education and early life

Born in

PhD supervised by Silvio Fallab[8] at the University of Basel, awarded in 1964.[9][10]

Career

After his PhD, Wüthrich continued

postdoctoral research with Fallab for a short time before leaving to work at the University of California, Berkeley for two years from 1965 with Robert E. Connick. That was followed by a stint working with Robert G. Shulman at the Bell Telephone Laboratories in Murray Hill, New Jersey
from 1967 to 1969.

Wüthrich returned to Switzerland, to

La Jolla, California and at the iHuman Institute of ShanghaiTech University. He has also been a visiting professor at the University of Edinburgh (1997–2000), the Chinese University of Hong Kong (where he was an Honorary Professor) and Yonsei University.[8]

During his graduate studies Wüthrich started out working with

superconducting
NMR spectrometers, and started studying the structure and dynamics of proteins. He has pursued this line of research ever since.

After returning to Switzerland, Wüthrich collaborated with, among others, Nobel laureate

bovine pancreatic trypsin inhibitor and glucagon
.

In October 2010, Wüthrich participated in the USA Science and Engineering Festival's Lunch with a Laureate program where middle and high school students will get to engage in an informal conversation with a Nobel Prize–winning scientist over a brown-bag lunch.[12] Wüthrich is also a member on the USA Science and Engineering Festival's Advisory Board[13] and a supporter of the Campaign for the Establishment of a United Nations Parliamentary Assembly, an organisation which campaigns for democratic reform in the United Nations.[14]

Awards and honors

He was awarded the

Foreign Member of the Royal Society (ForMemRS) in 2010.[16] He was also awarded the 2018 Fray International Sustainability Award at SIPS 2018 by FLOGEN Star Outreach.[17]

Personal details

On 2 April 2018, Dr. Wüthrich established permanent residency in Shanghai, China, after obtaining a Chinese permanent residence card.[18][19]

Bibliography

  • NMR in Biological Research: Peptides and Proteins, American Elsevier Pub. Co, 1976[20]
  • NMR of proteins and nucleic acids, Wiley, 1986[21]
  • NMR In Structural Biology: A Collection Of Papers By Kurt Wuthrich, World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd, 1995[22]

References

  1. ^ "Professor Kurt WÜTHRICH | Jeantet". 1 October 2017.
  2. ^ Scripps: The Wüthrich Laboratory
  3. ETH Zürich
  4. ^ 'An Interview with Kurt Wuthrich Freeview video by the Vega Science Trust
  5. ^ "The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2002". NobelPrize.org.
  6. ^ "Welcome to the Wüthrich Laboratory". Scripps Institute. Archived from the original on 4 July 2013.
  7. ^ "Wüthrich, Kurt". hls-dhs-dss.ch.
  8. ^ a b "Wüthrich's CV". The Scripps Research Institute. Retrieved 9 December 2016.
  9. S2CID 37721523
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  10. PMID 12467565
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  11. ^ "Kurt Wüthrich – Life Paths". Lindau Nobel Mediatheque. Retrieved 2022-05-09.
  12. ^ "Usasciencefestival.org lunch with a laureate". Archived from the original on 21 April 2010.
  13. ^ "Usasciencefestival.org". Archived from the original on 21 April 2010.
  14. ^ "Overview". Campaign for a UN Parliamentary Assembly. Retrieved 27 October 2017.
  15. ^ "Bijvoet Medal". Bijvoet Center for Biomolecular Research. Archived from the original on 12 September 2017. Retrieved 12 September 2017.
  16. ^ "Fellows of the Royal Society". London: Royal Society. Archived from the original on 16 March 2015.
  17. ^ "Kurt Wuthrich Winner of the Fray Award". www.flogen.org.
  18. ^ "Nobel Prize winner becomes permanent Shanghai resident". chinaplus.cri.cn. Retrieved 2 April 2018.
  19. ^ "Nobel Prize laureate becomes permanent Shanghai resident – SHINE". SHINE. Retrieved 2 April 2018.
  20. OCLC 1858425
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  21. OCLC 13425181.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link
    )
  22. OCLC 32589290
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External links

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  • Kurt Wüthrich on Nobelprize.org Edit this at Wikidata including the Nobel Lecture NMR Studies of Structure and Function of Biological Macromolecules
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