The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2017
Awarded on: 2017-10-04
"for developing cryo-electron microscopy for the high-resolution structure determination of biomolecules in solution"
Affiliations:
- Columbia University – New York, NY, USA
Joachim Frank
Born: 1940-09-12 in Siegen, Germany
Gender: male
Field: German-born American biophysicist and Nobel laureate (born 1940)
Biography
Joachim Frank ; born September 12, 1940) is a German-American biophysicist at Columbia University and a Nobel laureate. He is regarded as the founder of single-particle cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM), for which he shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2017 with Jacques Dubochet and Richard Henderson. He also made significant contributions to structure and function of the ribosome from bacteria and eukaryotes.