Joachim Frank, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 2017

Joachim Frank (born 12 September 1940 in Weidenau/Sieg) is a German-born biophysicist at Columbia University, New York City 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.

Awards (selection)

• 2006 Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
• 2006 Member of the National Academy of Sciences
• 2014 Benjamin Franklin Medal in Life Science of the Franklin Institute
• 2017 Wiley Prize in Biomedical Sciences *2017 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.