Jacques Dubochet
Dubochet in 2017
Born	( 1942-06-08 ) 8 June 1942 (age 81) Aigle , Switzerland
Citizenship	Switzerland
Education	Ecole polytechnique federale de Lausanne ( BS ) University of Geneva ( MS ) University of Geneva ( PhD ) University of Basel ( PhD )
Known for	Cryo-electron microscopy
Awards	Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2017)
Scientific career
Fields	Structural biology Cryo-electron microscopy
Institutions	European Molecular Biology Laboratory (1978-1987) University of Lausanne (since 1987)
Thesis	Contribution to the use of dark-field electron microscopy in biology   (1974)
Doctoral advisor	Eduard Kellenberger

Jacques Dubochet (born 8 June 1942) ^[1] is a retired Swiss biophysicist . ^{[2] [3]} He was born in Aigle , Switzerland.

He is a former researcher at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory in Heidelberg , Germany , and an honorary professor of biophysics at the University of Lausanne in Switzerland. ^{[3] [4]}

In 2017, he received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry together with Joachim Frank and Richard Henderson "for developing cryo-electron microscopy for the high-resolution structure determination of biomolecules in solution". ^{[5] [6]}

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