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Richard Henderson

Nobel prize winning British biochemist (born 1945)

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British molecular biologist who won the 2017 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for pioneering cryo-electron microscopy—basically letting scientists peek at individual atoms without destroying what they're looking at.

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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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