Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1988

Johann Deisenhofer

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Prize share: 1/3

Robert Huber

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Prize share: 1/3

Hartmut Michel

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Prize share: 1/3

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1988 was awarded jointly to Johann Deisenhofer, Robert Huber and Hartmut Michel "for the determination of the three-dimensional structure of a photosynthetic reaction centre"

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