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Joachim Frank
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Joachim Frank is a male chemist, biophysicist, and biologist born in Siegen on September 12, 1940. He holds citizenship in the United States and Germany. Frank has been educated at the University of Freiburg, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Cornell University, and the Technical University of Munich. He speaks German and English.
His professional affiliations include employment at Columbia University and the State University of New York at Albany. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences. Frank received the Benjamin Franklin Medal and the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. His field of work is biochemistry, and he has an interest in biology.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 14
Top works
- Untersuchungen von elektronenmikroskopischen Aufnahmen hoher Auflösung mit Bilddifferenz- und Rekonstruktionsverfahren
- Ierapetra, or His Sister's Keeper
- Novel Developments in Cryo‐EM of Biological Molecules
- Lattice quantum hadrodynamics
- Inspiring Stories from Amazing People
via Open Library + Wikidata
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1915-12-12
- Active to
- 1998-05-14
Discography
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 14
- Total plays
- 119
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- The SILVA ribosomal RNA gene database project: improved data processing and web-based tools
· 2012 · cited 29,226x
- Intermolecular interactions from a natural bond orbital, donor-acceptor viewpoint
· 1988 · cited 16,708x
- Accurate normalization of real-time quantitative RT-PCR data by geometric averaging of multiple internal control genes
· 2002 · cited 16,052x
- The american rheumatism association 1987 revised criteria for the classification of rheumatoid arthritis
· 1988 · cited 15,809x
- NMRPipe: A multidimensional spectral processing system based on UNIX pipes
· 1995 · cited 13,871x
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1940-09-12 ) September 12, 1940 (age 85) , Siegen , Germany
- Citizenship
- United States, Germany
- Education
- University of Freiburg ( BS ) , LMU Munich ( MS ) , Max Planck Society , Technical University of Munich ( PhD ) Cornell University
- Known for
- Single-particle cryo-electron microscopy , Ribosome structure and dynamics
- Spouse
- Gerda Cathy Frank ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1968 ) Carol Saginaw ( married</span>"}]]}'>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)
- 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
via Wikipedia infobox
Nobel Prize
- The Nobel Prize in Chemistry2017
“for developing cryo-electron microscopy for the high-resolution structure determination of biomolecules in solution”
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Encyclopedic overview
Joachim Frank ( German pronunciation: [ˈjoːaxɪm ˈfʁaŋk] ) 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. He also made significant contributions to structure and function of the ribosome from bacteria and eukaryotes.
Life and career
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