Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2017
© Nobel Prize Outreach. Photo: A. Mahmoud
Jacques Dubochet
Prize share: 1/3
© Nobel Prize Outreach. Photo: A. Mahmoud
Joachim Frank
Prize share: 1/3
© Nobel Prize Outreach. Photo: A. Mahmoud
Richard Henderson
Prize share: 1/3
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2017 was awarded jointly to Jacques Dubochet, Joachim Frank and Richard Henderson "for developing cryo-electron microscopy for the high-resolution structure determination of biomolecules in solution"
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