page_title: Johann Deisenhofer
section_title: Early life and education
hierarchical_section_title: Johann Deisenhofer / Early life and education
caption_attribution_description: English: Schematic drawing of the 3D structure of the photosynthetic reaction center[1] from Rhodopseudomonas viridis. The membrane is shown as pale yellow, bacteriochlorophylls are green, hemes in the cytochrome are red, and transmembrane alpha-helices are gold cylinders. This was the first crystal structure of a membrane protein, earning a Nobel Prize in 1988. Coordinates from PDB: 1PRC&#8203;; drawn by Jane Richardson, scanned and touched up by David Richardson.
context_page_description: Johann Deisenhofer is a German biochemist who, along with Hartmut Michel and Robert Huber, received the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1988 for their 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.
context_section_description: Born in Bavaria, Deisenhofer earned his doctorate from the Technical University of Munich for research work done at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry in Martinsried, West Germany, in 1974. He conducted research there until 1988, when he joined the scientific staff of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and the faculty of the Department of Biochemistry at The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas.
caption: Schematic of photosynthetic reaction center structure in membrane.
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