The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1988
Awarded on: 1988-10-19
"for the determination of the three-dimensional structure of a photosynthetic reaction centre"
Affiliations:
- Max-Planck-Institut für Biophysik – Frankfurt-on-the-Main, Germany
Hartmut Michel
Born: 1948-07-18 in Ludwigsburg, West Germany (now Germany)
Gender: male
Field: German biochemist (born 1948)
Biography
Hartmut Michel is a German biochemist, who received the 1988 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for determination of the first crystal structure of an integral membrane protein, a membrane-bound complex of proteins and co-factors that is essential to photosynthesis.