Nobel prize in chemistry awarded for method to visualize biomolecules

The Nobel prize in chemistry has been awarded to Jacques Dubochet, University of Lausanne, Switzerland, Joachim Frank, Columbia University, New York, USA, and Richard Henderson, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK,

“for developing cryo-electron microscopy for the high-resolution structure determination of biomolecules in solution”

This is very exciting news and fantastic recognition for the whole Cryo-Microscopy Society! The Cryo-EM Unit at the University of Helsinki, headed by Prof Sarah Butcher, hosts state-of-the-art transmission electron microsope FEI Talos Arctica, which enables this technique in its full capacity. We are sure it will prove very useful for  future outstanding research in Finland.

https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/2017/press.html

Interview  in C& E News https://cen.acs.org/articles/95/web/2017/10/Cryo-electron-microscopy-innovators-win-2017-Nobel-Prize-in-Chemistry.html

Interview in Helsingin Sanomat https://www.hs.fi/tiede/art-2000005394534.html

Interview about all of the Nobel prizes in Helsingin Sanomat TV https://www.hs.fi/tiede/art-2000005401270.html

History of the high points of the field written by Peter Brzezinski of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry advanced-chemistryprize2017

 

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