Jacques Dubochet
Swiss chemist
Jacques Dubochet (born 8 June 1942) is a Swiss scientist, specialist of biophysics. He is honorary professor at the University of Lausanne and winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2017, together with Joachim Frank and Richard Henderson "for developing cryo-electron microscopy for the high-resolution structure determination of biomolecules in solution."
Quotes
edit- [...] 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.
- Source, in French: Jacques Dubochet, Parcours, Éditions Rosso, 2018, page 9 (ISBN 9782940560097).
- 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 écologiques.
- Source, in French: Jacques Dubochet, Parcours, Éditions Rosso, 2018, page 145 (ISBN 9782940560097).
- 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 [...].
- Source, in French: Jacques Dubochet, Parcours, Éditions Rosso, 2018, page 153 (ISBN 9782940560097).
- Today, our developed nations live in opulence, excess and waste, with the consequences that our environment is degrading and the climate is wreaked.
- French: Aujourd'hui, nos nations développées vivent dans l'opulence, l'excès et le gaspillage avec pour conséquences notre environnement qui se dégrade et le climat boulversé.
- Source, in French: Jacques Dubochet, Parcours, Éditions Rosso, 2018, page 209 (ISBN 9782940560097).
