Nobel laureate Hartmut Michel has accepted a full-time professorship at Jilin University in China. He, who shared the 1988 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on photosynthesis, will be joining the university's First Hospital.

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...