Kurt Wüthrich

Kurt Wüthrich, Nobel Laureate

Born: 1938-10-04 in Aarberg, Switzerland

Gender: male

Field: Swiss chemist

Biography

Kurt Wüthrich is a Swiss chemist/biophysicist and Nobel Chemistry laureate, known for developing nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) methods for studying biological macromolecules.

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Nobel Prize Details

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2002

Awarded on: 2002-10-09

"for his development of nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy for determining the three-dimensional structure of biological macromolecules in solution"

Affiliations:

  • Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology)Zurich, Switzerland
  • The Scripps Research InstituteLa Jolla, CA, USA