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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2017


The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2017

Jacques Dubochet

Jacques Dubochet

Joachim Frank

Joachim Frank

Richard Henderson
Richard Henderson

      The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2017 was awarded to Jacques Dubochet, Joachim Frank and Richard Henderson "for developing cryo-electron microscopy for the high-resolution structure determination of biomolecules in solution"

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