The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2017 was awarded to Jacques Dubochet, Joachim Frank and Richard Henderson "for developing cryo-electron microscopy for the high-resolution structure determination of biomolecules in solution".
Jacques Dubochet
Born: 8 June 1942, Aigle, Switzerland
Affiliation at the time of the award: University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
Prize motivation: "for developing cryo-electron microscopy for the high-resolution structure determination of biomolecules in solution"
Prize share: 1/3
Joachim Frank
Born: 12 September 1940, Siegen, Germany
Affiliation at the time of the award: Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
Prize motivation: "for developing cryo-electron microscopy for the high-resolution structure determination of biomolecules in solution"
Prize share: 1/3
Richard Henderson
Born: 19 July 1945, Edinburgh, Scotland
Affiliation at the time of the award: MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Prize motivation: "for developing cryo-electron microscopy for the high-resolution structure determination of biomolecules in solution"
Prize share: 1/3
