The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1988

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded
this year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry to

   

 

Dr Johann Deisenhofer
University of Texas
Southwestern Medical
Center, Dallas, USA

Professor Robert Huber
Max-Planck-Institut
für Biochemie,
Martinsried, FRG

Dr Hartmut Michel
Max-Planck-Institut
für Biophysik,
Frankfurt/Main, FRG

 

 

for the determination of the three-dimensional structure
of a photosynthetic reaction center.

 

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