German-born American biophysicist and Nobel laureate (born 1940)
Joachim Frank
Joachim Frank under Nobel Prize press conference in Stockholm, December 2017
Born
(1940-09-12) September 12, 1940 (age 83)
Siegen, Germany
Citizenship
United States, Germany[1]
Education
University of Freiburg (BS) University of Munich (MS) Max Planck Society Technical University of Munich (PhD) Cornell University
Known for
Single-particle cryo-electron microscopy Ribosome structure and dynamics
Spouse
Carol Saginaw
(m. 1983)
Children
Ze Frank & Mariel Frank
Awards
Benjamin Franklin Medal in Life Science (2014)
Wiley Prize in Biomedical Sciences (2017)
Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2017)
Honorary Fellow of the Royal Microscopical Society (2018)
Scientific career
Fields
Structural biology Cryo-electron microscopy
Institutions
University at Albany, Department of Biomedical Sciences Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics
Thesis
Untersuchungen von elektronenmikroskopischen Aufnahmen hoher Auflösung mit Bilddifferenz- und Rekonstruktionsverfahren (1970)
Doctoral advisor
Walter Hoppe
Other academic advisors
Robert Glaeser, Robert Nathan
Joachim Frank (German pronunciation:[ˈjoːaxɪmˈfʁaŋk]ⓘ) HonFRMS; born September 12, 1940) is a German-American biophysicist at Columbia University and a Nobel laureate. He is regarded as the founder of single-particle cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM), for which he shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2017 with Jacques Dubochet and Richard Henderson.[2] He also made significant contributions to structure and function of the ribosome from bacteria and eukaryotes.
^Frank, Joachim (2017), Curriculum Vitae Archived October 9, 2017, at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved October 4, 2017.
^"The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2017". The Nobel Foundation. October 4, 2017. Retrieved October 6, 2017.
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