Joachim Frank
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Joachim Frank | |
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![]() Joachim Frank unner Nobel Prize press conference in Stockholm, December 2017 | |
Born | Siegen, Germany | 12 September 1940
Citizenship | Unitit States, Germany[1] |
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) |
Childer | 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.
References[eedit | eedit soorce]
- ↑ Frank, Joachim (2017), Curriculum Vitae. Retrieved October 4, 2017.
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