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Michael Rossmann
German-American physicist and microbiologist · Germany · On the map · Scientists · Lived 1930 to 2019 · aged 88
Michael G. Rossmann was a German-American physicist, microbiologist, and Hanley Distinguished Professor of Biological Sciences at Purdue University who led a team of researchers to be the first to map the structure of a human common cold virus to an atomic level. He also discovered the Rossmann fold protein motif.
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His most well recognised contribution to structural biology is the development of a phasing technique named molecular replacement, which has led to about three quarters of depositions in the Protein Data Bank.
The same award as Michael
Stephen QuakeBoth received Sackler Prize for BiophysicsMichael WoolfsonBoth received Gregori Aminoff Prize
Jacques ProstBoth received Sackler Prize for BiophysicsXiaowei ZhuangBoth received Sackler Prize for Biophysics
Paul Peter EwaldBoth received Gregori Aminoff Prize