Robert Huber:
Robert Huber is a German biochemist and Nobel laureate.
Birth:
February 20, 1937 in Munich, Germany
Claim to Fame:
Huber is a German biochemist who shares the 1988 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Johann Deisenhofer and Hartmut Michel for the determination of the structure of the proteins essential for photosynthesis. They isolated the protein that was important to photosynthesis in purple bacteria and used x-ray crystallography to determine its structure. This led to the discovery of similar proteins necessary for photosynthesis in other cyanobacteria.
