Robert Huber

Robert Huber is a German biochemist and Nobel laureate known for his work crystallizing an intramembrane protein important in photosynthesis and subsequently applying X-ray crystallography to elucidate the protein's structure.

The main focus of Professor Robert Huber’s research is on structural biology.

He was awarded the 1988 Nobel Prize in Chemistry together with two colleagues for the determination of the three-dimensional structure of a photosynthetic reaction center in a bacterium. The methodological basis of this research is x-ray crystallography, with which the three-dimensional structure of proteins can be resolved down to the atomic level. Huber’s emeritus group “Structure Research” also investigates biological structures – for example of immune molecules, hormones and different enzymes