Richard Henderson (biologist)
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Richard Henderson CH FRS FMedSci HonFRSC (born 19 July 1945)[3] is a British molecular biologist and biophysicist and pioneer in the field of electron microscopy of biological molecules. Henderson shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2017 with Jacques Dubochet and Joachim Frank.[4] "Thanks to his work, we can look at individual atoms of living nature, thanks to cryo-electron microscopes we can see details without destroying samples, and for this he won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry."[5]
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Born | (1945-07-19) 19 July 1945 (age 78) Edinburgh, Scotland |
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Known for | Cryo-electron microscopy[1] |
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Thesis | X-Ray Analysis of α-chymotrysin: Substrate and Inhibitor Binding (1970) |
Doctoral advisor | David Mervyn Blow |
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