1940 - Today
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. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Joachim Frank has received more than 249,029 page views. His biography is available in 39 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 36 in 2019). Joachim Frank is the 182nd most popular chemist (down from 152nd in 2019), the 1,024th most popular biography from Germany (down from 963rd in 2019) and the 38th 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, Joachim Frank ranks 182 out of 509. Before him are George Porter, Georg Wittig, Jean-Pierre Sauvage, Antoine Jérôme Balard, Louis Jacques Thénard, and Max Perutz. After him are Ei-ichi Negishi, Walter Gilbert, Alan J. Heeger, Raymond Davis Jr., Stanislao Cannizzaro, and Germain Henri Hess.
1920 - 2002
HPI: 60.85
Rank: 176
1897 - 1987
HPI: 60.84
Rank: 177
1944 - Present
HPI: 60.84
Rank: 178
1802 - 1876
HPI: 60.77
Rank: 179
1777 - 1857
HPI: 60.76
Rank: 180
1914 - 2002
HPI: 60.76
Rank: 181
1940 - Present
HPI: 60.75
Rank: 182
1935 - 2021
HPI: 60.62
Rank: 183
1932 - Present
HPI: 60.58
Rank: 184
1936 - Present
HPI: 60.55
Rank: 185
1914 - 2006
HPI: 60.50
Rank: 186
1826 - 1910
HPI: 60.48
Rank: 187
1802 - 1850
HPI: 60.46
Rank: 188
Among people born in 1940, Joachim Frank ranks 81. Before him are Milena Dravić, Gudrun Ensslin, Lance Henriksen, Marlène Jobert, James Brolin, and John Gotti. After him are Astrud Gilberto, George Akerlof, Dionne Warwick, Lothar de Maizière, Anthony Fauci, and Brian Josephson.
1940 - 2018
HPI: 61.48
Rank: 75
1940 - 1977
HPI: 61.35
Rank: 76
1940 - Present
HPI: 61.30
Rank: 77
1940 - Present
HPI: 61.28
Rank: 78
1940 - Present
HPI: 61.22
Rank: 79
1940 - 2002
HPI: 60.81
Rank: 80
1940 - Present
HPI: 60.75
Rank: 81
1940 - 2023
HPI: 60.70
Rank: 82
1940 - Present
HPI: 60.66
Rank: 83
1940 - Present
HPI: 60.26
Rank: 84
1940 - Present
HPI: 60.17
Rank: 85
1940 - Present
HPI: 60.08
Rank: 86
1940 - Present
HPI: 60.07
Rank: 87
Among people born in Germany, Joachim Frank ranks 1,024 out of 6,142. Before him are Paul Johann Anselm Ritter von Feuerbach (1775), Constantin Fehrenbach (1852), Charles, Grand Duke of Baden (1786), Florian Geyer (1490), Karl Mack von Leiberich (1752), and Albert I, Duke of Bavaria (1336). After him are Princess Juliane of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (1781), Manfred Rommel (1928), Wilhelmine of Prussia, Margravine of Brandenburg-Bayreuth (1709), Infanta Maria Antonia of Portugal (1862), Hermann Heinrich Gossen (1810), and Frederick IV, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp (1671).
1775 - 1833
HPI: 60.75
Rank: 1,018
1852 - 1926
HPI: 60.75
Rank: 1,019
1786 - 1818
HPI: 60.75
Rank: 1,020
1490 - 1525
HPI: 60.75
Rank: 1,021
1752 - 1828
HPI: 60.75
Rank: 1,022
1336 - 1404
HPI: 60.75
Rank: 1,023
1940 - Present
HPI: 60.75
Rank: 1,024
1781 - 1860
HPI: 60.74
Rank: 1,025
1928 - 2013
HPI: 60.72
Rank: 1,026
1709 - 1758
HPI: 60.71
Rank: 1,027
1862 - 1959
HPI: 60.70
Rank: 1,028
1810 - 1858
HPI: 60.70
Rank: 1,029
1671 - 1702
HPI: 60.70
Rank: 1,030
Among chemists born in Germany, Joachim Frank ranks 38. Before him are Hennig Brand (1630), Heinrich Gustav Magnus (1802), Hans von Euler-Chelpin (1873), Robert Huber (1937), August Wilhelm von Hofmann (1818), and Georg Wittig (1897). After him are Gerhard Herzberg (1904), Johann Deisenhofer (1943), Emil Erlenmeyer (1825), Feodor Lynen (1911), Franz Karl Achard (1753), and Friedrich Sertürner (1783).
1630 - 1710
HPI: 61.79
Rank: 32
1802 - 1870
HPI: 61.48
Rank: 33
1873 - 1964
HPI: 61.13
Rank: 34
1937 - Present
HPI: 61.08
Rank: 35
1818 - 1892
HPI: 60.93
Rank: 36
1897 - 1987
HPI: 60.84
Rank: 37
1940 - Present
HPI: 60.75
Rank: 38
1904 - 1999
HPI: 60.44
Rank: 39
1943 - Present
HPI: 60.35
Rank: 40
1825 - 1909
HPI: 60.05
Rank: 41
1911 - 1979
HPI: 59.98
Rank: 42
1753 - 1821
HPI: 59.36
Rank: 43
1783 - 1841
HPI: 59.33
Rank: 44