Richard Henderson (biologist)
Richard Henderson | |
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Henderson during Nobel Prize press conference in Stockholm in 2017 | |
| Born | 19 July 1945 Edinburgh, Scotland |
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| Known for | Cryo-electron microscopy |
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| Thesis | X-Ray Analysis of α-chymotrysin: Substrate and Inhibitor Binding (1970) |
| Doctoral advisor | David Mervyn Blow |
Richard Henderson 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."