Richard Henderson

Richard Henderson, Nobel Laureate

Born: 1945-07-19 in Edinburgh, Scotland

Gender: male

Field: British biologist (born 1945)

Biography

Richard Henderson is a British molecular biologist and biophysicist and pioneer in the field of electron microscopy of biological molecules. Henderson shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2017 with Jacques Dubochet and Joachim Frank. "Thanks to his work, we can look at individual atoms of living nature, thanks to cryo-electron microscopes we can see details without destroying samples, and for this he won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry."

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Nobel Prize Details

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:

  • MRC Laboratory of Molecular BiologyCambridge, United Kingdom