Kurt Wüthrich

Kurt Wüthrich
Wüthrich at the 2012 Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting
Born	(1938-10-04) October 4, 1938 (age 78) Aarberg, Switzerland
Nationality	Swiss
Fields	Chemistry Nuclear magnetic resonance
Institutions	ETH Zürich University of California, Berkeley Scripps Institute
Alma mater	Universität Bern Universität Basel
Doctoral advisor	Silvio Fallab
Known for	NMR of proteins
Notable awards	Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2002) Kyoto Prize (1998) Marcel Benoist Prize (1991) Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize (1991) ForMemRS (2010)
Website www.scripps.edu/wuthrich

Kurt Wüthrich (born October 4, 1938 in Aarberg, Canton of Bern) is a Swiss chemist/biophysicist and Nobel Chemistry laureate, known for developing nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) methods for studying biological macromolecules.

Born in Aarberg, Switzerland, Wüthrich was educated in chemistry, physics, and mathematics at the University of Bern before pursuing his Ph.D. supervised by Silvio Fallab at the University of Basel, awarded in 1964.

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 Zürich, in 1969, where he began his career there at the ETH Zürich, rising to Professor of Biophysics by 1980. He currently maintains a laboratory both at the ETH Zürich and at The Scripps Research Institute, in La Jolla, California. 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.