Robert Huber is a German biochemist and Nobel laureate. He was born 20 February 1937 in Munich. He was educated at the Humanistisches Karls-Gymnasium from 1947 to 1956 and then studied chemistry at the Technische Hochschule, receiving his diploma in 1960.

In 1971 he became a director at the Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry where his team developed methods for the crystallography of proteins.
In 1988 he received the Nobel Prize for Chemistry jointly with Johann Deisenhofer and Hartmut Michel.
Since 2005 he is doing research at the Center for medical biotechnology of the University of Duisburg-Essen.