Richard Henderson

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Richard Henderson is a Scottish molecular biologist and biophysicist renowned for his pioneering work in electron microscopy of biological molecules, for which he shared the 2017 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

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instanceOf Nobel laureate in Chemistry
biophysicist
molecular biologist
person
structural biologist
academicDegree Bachelor of Science
PhD
awardReceived Copley Medal
EMBO Gold Medal
Gairdner Foundation International Award
Louis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine
Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Nobel Prize in Chemistry
surface form: Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2017

Rosenstiel Award
countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom
dateOfBirth 1945-07-19
educatedAt University of Edinburgh
Yale University
employer MRC LMB
surface form: MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
familyName Henderson
fieldOfWork biophysics
electron microscopy
molecular biology
structural biology
givenName Richard
knownFor development of cryo-electron microscopy
electron microscopy of biological molecules
high-resolution structure determination of membrane proteins
structure of bacteriorhodopsin
languageSpoken English
memberOf European Molecular Biology Organization
Royal Society
name Richard Henderson
nationality Scottish
NobelPrizeCategory Chemistry
NobelPrizeMotivation for developing cryo-electron microscopy for the high-resolution structure determination of biomolecules in solution
NobelPrizeYear 2017
notableWork three-dimensional structure of bacteriorhodopsin at atomic resolution
placeOfBirth Edinburgh
positionHeld Director of the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
group leader at MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
researchInterest membrane proteins
single-particle cryo-EM
residence CAMBRIDGE
surface form: Cambridge
sharedNobelPrizeWith Jacques Dubochet
Joachim Frank
workplace CAMBRIDGE
surface form: Cambridge

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