Joachim Frank
German-born American biophysicist and Nobel laureate · United States · On the map · Scientists · Born 1940 · age 86
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.
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2020Knight Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of GermanyAward2017Nobel Prize in ChemistryAward2014Benjamin Franklin MedalAward1940Born12 September 1940
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He also made significant contributions to structure and function of the ribosome from bacteria and eukaryotes.
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Born 1940 · age 86
