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Richard Henderson
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Richard Henderson is indexed among the 198 entries in Vinony's Nobel Prize in Chemistry collection. It also appears in Copley Medal.
Within Vinony's link graph, Richard Henderson is referenced by 332 other articles, and connects out to Greg Winter, Order of the Companions of Honour and neutron diffraction.
It sits within the topics 1945 births, 21st-century Scottish biologists and Alumni of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.
Its subject is documented across 45 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Born
- ( 1945-07-19 ) 19 July 1945 (age 80) , Edinburgh , Scotland
- Alma mater
- University of Edinburgh Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
- Known for
- Cryo-electron microscopy
- Awards
- Louis-Jeantet Prize (1993) Copley Medal (2016) Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2017)
- Fields
- Structural biology Cryo-electron microscopy Electron crystallography
- Institutions
- Laboratory of Molecular Biology Yale University
- Thesis
- X-Ray Analysis of α-chymotrysin: Substrate and Inhibitor Binding (1970)
- Doctoral advisor
- David Mervyn Blow
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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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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Richard
- Family name
- Henderson
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- Edinburgh
- Occupation
- biochemist
- Employer
- Laboratory of Molecular Biology
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Academic degree
- Doctor of Philosophy
- Field of work
- molecular biology
- Image
- Richard Henderson D81 4486 (38005042695).jpg
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- member of
- National Academy of Sciences
- date of birth
- 1945-07-19
- name in native language
- Richard Henderson
- Commons category
- Richard Henderson (biologist)
- interested in
- biology
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Encyclopedic overview
Richard Henderson (born 19 July 1945) 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. "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."
Education
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