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Joachim Frank

1940 - Today

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Joachim Frank (German pronunciation: [ˈjoːaxɪm ˈfʁaŋk] ) ; born September 12, 1940) is a German-American biophysicist at Columbia University 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Joachim Frank is the 224th most popular chemist (down from 138th in 2019), the 905th most popular biography from Germany (down from 763rd in 2019) and the 37th most popular German Chemist.

Joachim Frank is most famous for his work in the field of X-ray crystallography. He is a professor of molecular biophysics and biochemistry at Columbia University and a member of the National Academy of Sciences.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Joachim Frank ranks 224 out of 602. Before him are Osamu Shimomura, Giulio Natta, C. N. R. Rao, Ahmed Zewail, Johan Gottlieb Gahn, and John Newlands. After him are Hartmut Michel, John Vane, William Hyde Wollaston, Richard Abegg, Ignacy Mościcki, and Stanley Miller.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1940, Joachim Frank ranks 81. Before him are Herbie Hancock, Cliff Richard, Thomas Harris, Jacques Rancière, Denis Law, and Burt Young. After him are Isdal Woman, Lance Henriksen, Shahnaz Pahlavi, Shozo Tsugitani, Bruce Chatwin, and Mina.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Joachim Frank ranks 905 out of 7,253. Before him are Frederica of Baden (1781), Constantin Fehrenbach (1852), Hardy Krüger (1928), Albert O. Hirschman (1915), Udo Kier (1944), and Ernest, Elector of Saxony (1441). After him are Nastassja Kinski (1961), Hartmut Michel (1948), Duke Henry of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1876), Hugo Junkers (1859), Elizabeth of Carinthia, Queen of Germany (1262), and John George I, Elector of Saxony (1585).

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Among CHEMISTS In Germany

Among chemists born in Germany, Joachim Frank ranks 37. Before him are Georg Wittig (1897), Felix Hoffmann (1868), Gerhard Herzberg (1904), Robert Huber (1937), Johann Deisenhofer (1943), and Georg Ernst Stahl (1659). After him are Hartmut Michel (1948), August Wilhelm von Hofmann (1818), Hennig Brand (1630), Friedrich Sertürner (1783), Henri Victor Regnault (1810), and John Polanyi (1929).

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