Jacques Dubochet

Swiss chemist · Switzerland · Academics · Born 1942 · age 84

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Jacques Dubochet is a retired Swiss biophysicist. 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.

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Dubochet at the Nobel Prize press conference in Stockholm (December 2017)

Parking Place Reserved for Jacques Dubochet on the University of Lausanne Campus

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Jacques Dubochet

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[...] knowledge is our greatest wealth and the love of others the most beautiful human value.
French: [...] la connaissance est notre plus grande richesse et l'amour d'autrui la plus belle valeur humaine., Own words
Reasonably, all these [fossil fuel] investments are financial dead-ends or ecological disasters.
French: Raisonnablement, tous ces investissements [dans les énergies fossiles] sont des culs-de-sac financiers ou des catastrophes, Own words
To control global warming, only one solution: stop burning fossil fuels.
French: Pour maîtriser le réchauffement climatique, une seule solution : arrêter de brûler les combustibles fossiles [...]., Own words