The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2017

Jacques Dubochet

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Prize share: 1/3

Joachim Frank

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Prize share: 1/3

Richard Henderson

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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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