Joachim Frank

Joachim Frank (born September 12, 1940) is a German-born American biophysicist at Columbia University. He is thought to be as the founder of single-particle cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM). He shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2017 with Jacques Dubochet and Richard Henderson.  He also made major works to structure and function of the ribosome from bacteria and eukaryotes.

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