# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/joachim-frank
# Generated: 2026-08-13T15:44:15.313Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/joachim-frank"
name: "Joachim Frank"
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description: "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."
tagline: "German-born American biophysicist and Nobel laureate"
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country:
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birthDate: "1940-09-12"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump