JOACHIM FRANK


Joachim Frank
Joachim Frank
  • Born: September 12, 1940
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Scientist

Joachim Frank HonFRMS 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.