Joachim Frank

Joachim Frank
Joachim Frank
	Joachim Frank under Nobel Prize press conference in Stockholm, December 2017
Born	September 12, 1940; Siegen, Germany
Citizenship	United States, Germany
Education	University of Freiburg (BS); University of Munich (MS); Max Planck Society; Technical University of Munich (PhD) Cornell University
Known for	Single-particle cryo-electron microscopy; Ribosome structure and dynamics
Spouse	Carol Saginaw (m. 1983)
Children	Ze Frank & Mariel Frank
Awards	Benjamin Franklin Medal in Life Science (2014); Wiley Prize in Biomedical Sciences (2017); Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2017); Honorary Fellow of the Royal Microscopical Society (2018);
	Scientific career
Fields	Structural biology; Cryo-electron microscopy
Institutions	University at Albany, Department of Biomedical Sciences ; Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics
Thesis	Untersuchungen von elektronenmikroskopischen Aufnahmen hoher Auflösung mit Bilddifferenz- und Rekonstruktionsverfahren (1970)
Doctoral advisor	Walter Hoppe
Other academic advisors	Robert Glaeser, Robert Nathan

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 Richard Henderson. He also made significant contributions to structure and function of the ribosome from bacteria and eukaryotes.

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