Joachim Frank ( German: Joachim Frank , born September 12, 1940 , Weidenau ) is a German and American biophysicist . It is considered the founder of cryoelectronic microscopy . Laureate of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2017 [1] .
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Biography
He graduated from the University of Freiburg (1963), thesis at the University of Munich Ludwig and Maximilian on the study of secondary electron emission of gold at the melting temperature (1967). Investigated high-resolution electron microscopy images of difference images and methods (1970). As a post-doctoral student, he worked at Caltech, the University of California, Berkeley, and Cornell University.
Since 1972, Frank has been a researcher at the Institute of Biochemistry. Max Planck, since 1973 the head of the research group at the University of Cambridge, since 1994 in Heidelberg. Since 2003, he has been teaching at Columbia University , where since 2008 he has been a professor of biochemistry, molecular biophysics and biological sciences.
Married and has two children, has a blog.
Awards, bonuses, other distinctions
- Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2006)
- Member of the US National Academy of Sciences (2006) [2]
- Benjamin Franklin Medal (2014)
- Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2017)
- Wiley Award (2017)
Notes
- ↑ Anya Grushina. See accurate to the atom // Science and Life . - 2017. - No. 12 . - S. 2-8 .
- ↑ Joachim Frank