In Celebration of the 2017 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for Cryo-Electron Microscopy

Scientific Background on the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2017

THE DEVELOPMENT OF CRYO-ELECTRON MICROSCOPY

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This year the Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to three researchers, Dr. Jacques Dubochet (Professor, University of Lausanne, Switzerland), Dr. Joachim Frank (Professor, Columbia University, the U.S.A), and Dr. Richard Henderson (Program Leader, MRC, Laboratory of Molecular Biology, U.K.), for their development of Cryo-Electron Microscopy.