I learned easily and had time to follow my inclination for sports (light athletics and skiing) and chemistry, which I taught myself by reading all textbooks I could get.

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Robert Huber was one of the original editors of the Encyclopedia of Analytical Chemistry. The trio were recognized for their work in first crystallizing an intramembrane protein important in photosynthesis in purple bacteria and subsequently applying X-ray crystallography to elucidate the protein's structure. He is married with four children.

Robert Huber is a German biochemist and Nobel laureate. He was born 20 February 1937 in Munich where his father Sebastian was a bank cashier. Since 2005 he is doing research at the Center for medical biotechnology of the University of Duisburg-Essen.