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Hartmut Michel
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1948-07-18 ) 18 July 1948 (age 77) , Ludwigsburg , Württemberg-Baden , American Zone, Allied-occupied Germany , (now in Baden-Württemberg , Germany)
- Alma mater
- University of Tübingen
- Known for
- Crystallisation of membrane proteins
- Spouse
- Elena Olkhova
- Awards
- Max Delbruck Prize (1986) Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize (1986) Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1988)
- Fields
- Biochemistry
- Institutions
- Max Planck Institute for Biophysics , Jilin University
- Website
- www .biophys .mpg .de /en /michel .html
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Nobel Prize
- The Nobel Prize in Chemistry1988
“for the determination of the three-dimensional structure of a photosynthetic reaction centre”
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Hartmut
- Family name
- Michel
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- West Germany
- Place of birth
- Ludwigsburg
- Occupation
- chemist
- Educated at
- University of Würzburg
- Languages spoken
- German
- Field of work
- biochemistry
- Official website
- www.biophys.mpg.de/en/michel.html
- Image
- 22 MPI BP Hartmut Michel 221028 quadrat.jpg
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- member of
- Academia Europaea
- date of birth
- 1948-07-18
- Commons category
- Hartmut Michel
- Erdős number
- 4
- name in native language
- Hartmut Michel
- P8168
- Kavar
- interested in
- biochemistry
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Encyclopedic overview
Hartmut Michel ( German pronunciation: [ˈhaʁtmuːt ˈmɪçl̩] ; born 18 July 1948) is a German biochemist, who received the 1988 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for determination of the first crystal structure of an integral membrane protein, a membrane-bound complex of proteins and co-factors that is essential to photosynthesis.
He is currently a professor at Jilin University, China.
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