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Joachim Frank

1940 - Today

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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 264,626 page views. His biography is available in 42 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 39 in 2019). Joachim Frank is the 138th most popular chemist (up from 182nd in 2019), the 763rd most popular biography from Germany (up from 1,024th in 2019) and the 31st 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

Among chemists, Joachim Frank ranks 138 out of 602. Before him are Ronald George Wreyford Norrish, William Howard Stein, Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky, Jean-Pierre Sauvage, Glenn T. Seaborg, and Marie-Anne Paulze Lavoisier. After him are Kurt Wüthrich, Willard Libby, Louis Nicolas Vauquelin, Sune Bergström, John Newlands, and Christian B. Anfinsen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1940, Joachim Frank ranks 64. Before him are Cliff Richard, Óscar Arias, Jan Jongbloed, Thomas Harris, George A. Romero, and James Cromwell. After him are Astrud Gilberto, Marie, Princess of Liechtenstein, Jacques Rancière, Fatema Mernissi, Dennis Tito, and John Gotti.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Joachim Frank ranks 763 out of 7,253. Before him are Albrecht III Achilles, Elector of Brandenburg (1414), Prince Leopold of Bavaria (1846), Hugo Boss (1885), Fritz Perls (1893), Juliana Maria of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (1729), and Charles William Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick (1735). After him are Karl Harrer (1890), Ryke Geerd Hamer (1935), Matilda of Ringelheim (894), Hermann Weyl (1885), Markus Wolf (1923), and Ralf Dahrendorf (1929).

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Among CHEMISTS In Germany

Among chemists born in Germany, Joachim Frank ranks 31. Before him are Felix Hoffmann (1868), Fritz Strassmann (1902), Gerhard Ertl (1936), Ernst Otto Fischer (1918), Manfred Eigen (1927), and Georg Wittig (1897). After him are Georg Ernst Stahl (1659), Johann Deisenhofer (1943), Robert Huber (1937), Ernst Chain (1906), August Wilhelm von Hofmann (1818), and Emil Erlenmeyer (1825).

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