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Joachim Frank (German pronunciation: [ˈjoːaxɪm ˈfʁaŋk] ⓘ) HonFRMS; 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 ...
Joachim Frank. The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2017. Born: 12 September 1940, Siegen, Germany. Affiliation at the time of the award: Columbia University, New York, NY, USA. Prize motivation: “for developing cryo-electron microscopy for the high-resolution structure determination of biomolecules in solution” Prize share: 1/3. Life.
Dr. Joachim Frank is a Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics and of Biological Sciences at Columbia University, and Distinguished Professor of the State University of New York at Albany. Born and educated in Germany, he received his Diplom in physics from the University of Munich.
Biographical. I. was born on September 12, 1940 in Weidenau/Sieg, Germany. Since 1972 the town has been part of Siegen, a city with currently some 100,000 inhabitants, situated at the southern tip of North Rhine Westphalia.
Interview with Chemistry Laureate Joachim Frank on 6 December 2017 during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. Joachim Frank answers the following questions (the links below lead to clip on YouTube): 0:00 – When was your scientific interest first sparked? 1:15 – Do you find that science and your art are related in any way?
Joachim Frank is a German-born American biochemist who won the 2017 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for his work on image-processing techniques that proved essential to the development of cryo-electron microscopy.
