In 1988, Robert Huber received the highest honor the world of science has to bestow: together with Hartmut Michel and Johann Dieisenhofer, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry “for the determination of the three-dimensional structure of a photosynthetic reaction center”. He studied, did his doctorate and post-doctoral qualification as professor in chemistry at the TUM, to which he remained attached as director of the Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry. He had already begun to focus on crystallography for his dissertation, and he had established a protein crystallography laboratory in the early 1970s. Over the years, with the help of X-ray crystallography, he was able to demonstrate the structure of numerous proteins and protein complexes, including protease and their natural and synthetic inhibitors; metalloenzymes; immune system proteins; protein hormones and their receptors; protein kinases; amino acid biosynthesis enzymes; and energy and electron transfer proteins. Moreover, he developed and improved new devices and methods now standard in X-ray structural analysis – for example, the Patterson Method, graphic methods and the improvement of protein crystallization. Robert Huber is guest professor at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, the University of Duisburg-Essen, Cardiff University in the UK and Seoul National University in Korea. He is also co-founder of the biotech companies Proteros and Suppremol and a member of the academic advisory board of the Peter and Traudl Engelhorn Stiftung as well as several pharmaceutical companies. Robert Huber continues to conduct research at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry up to the present day.