Joachim Frank

Joachim Frank
Joachim Frank unner Nobel Prize press conference in Stockholm, December 2017
Born	(1940-09-12) 12 September 1940 Siegen, Germany
Citizenship	Unitit States, Germany
Eddication	Varsity o Freiburg (BS) Varsity o Munich (MS) Technical Varsity o Munich (PhD)
Kent for	Single-pairticle cryo-electron microscopy Ribosome structure and dynamics
Hauf-marrae(s)	Carol Saginaw (m. 1983)
Bairns	2
Awairds	Benjamin Franklin Medal in Life Science (2014) Wiley Prize in Biomedical Sciences (2017) Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2017)
Scientific career
Fields	Structural biologie Cryo-electron microscopy
Institutions	Columbia Varrsity College o Physeecians an Surgeons, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics

Joachim Frank (born 12 September 1940) is a German-born American biopheesicist at Columbia Varsity, New York Ceety an a Nobel laureate. He is regairdit as the foonder o single-pairticle cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) , for which he shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2017 wi Jacques Dubochet an Richard Henderson. He an aw made significant contributions tae structur an function o the ribosome frae bacteria an eukaryotes.