Kurt Wüthrich
Swiss chemist
ShanghaiTech University
Aarberg
Kurt Wüthrich is a Swiss chemist/biophysicist and Nobel Chemistry laureate, known for developing nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) methods for studying biological macromolecules.
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Kurt Wüthrich is a Swiss chemist/biophysicist and Nobel Chemistry laureate, known for developing nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) methods for studying biological macromolecules.
Affiliation
ShanghaiTech University
Top Publications
- NMR with Proteins and Nucleic Acids (1986) - 8,025 citations
- MOLMOL: A program for display and analysis of macromolecular structures (1996) - 7,200 citations
- Application of phase sensitive two-dimensional correlated spectroscopy (COSY) for measurements of 1H-1H spin-spin coupling constants in proteins (1983) - 3,160 citations
- Torsion angle dynamics for NMR structure calculation with the new program Dyana (1997) - 2,820 citations
- Attenuated T 2 relaxation by mutual cancellation of dipole–dipole coupling and chemical shift anisotropy indicates an avenue to NMR structures of very large biological macromolecules in solution (1997) - 2,487 citations
At a glance
- Full name
- Kurt Wüthrich
- Born
- 1938-10-04
- ORCID
- 0000-0001-8739-6965
- OpenAlex ID
- https://openalex.org/A5000254356
Research interests
- Protein Structure and Dynamics, Advanced NMR Techniques and Applications, Enzyme Structure and Function, Molecular spectroscopy and chirality, Prion Diseases and Protein Misfolding
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Most-cited linked publications
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- NMR with Proteins and Nucleic Acids ↗1986 · Europhysics news8,025OpenAlex citations
- MOLMOL: A program for display and analysis of macromolecular structures ↗1996 · Journal of Molecular Graphics7,200OpenAlex citations
- Application of phase sensitive two-dimensional correlated spectroscopy (COSY) for measurements of 1H-1H spin-spin coupling constants in proteins ↗1983 · Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications3,160OpenAlex citations
- Torsion angle dynamics for NMR structure calculation with the new program Dyana ↗1997 · Journal of Molecular Biology2,820OpenAlex citations
- Attenuated T 2 relaxation by mutual cancellation of dipole–dipole coupling and chemical shift anisotropy indicates an avenue to NMR structures of very large biological macromolecules in solution ↗1997 · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences2,487OpenAlex citations
Recent linked publications
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- NMR with Proteins and Nucleic Acids ↗1986 · Europhysics news
- MOLMOL: A program for display and analysis of macromolecular structures ↗1996 · Journal of Molecular Graphics
- Application of phase sensitive two-dimensional correlated spectroscopy (COSY) for measurements of 1H-1H spin-spin coupling constants in proteins ↗1983 · Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications
- Torsion angle dynamics for NMR structure calculation with the new program Dyana ↗1997 · Journal of Molecular Biology
- Attenuated T 2 relaxation by mutual cancellation of dipole–dipole coupling and chemical shift anisotropy indicates an avenue to NMR structures of very large biological macromolecules in solution ↗1997 · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
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Awards & honors
- Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2002) — for his development of nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy for determining the three-dimensional structure of biological macromolecules in solution
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