Nobel laureate biochemist Hartmut Michel joins Jilin University in China

German biochemist and Nobel laureate Hartmut Michel has taken up a full-time position as a professor at Jilin University in Changchun, northeastern China, according to the university.The 77-year-old – who shared the 1988 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for revealing how photosynthesis works at the molecular level – will join the university’s First Hospital as “a flagship hire under its talent recruitment strategy”, the university said in a statement last week.It said Michel told the university’s Communist Party chief Tian Hui during a meeting on April 21 that the university had a strong academic base and had made steady progress across many fields in recent years.