Richard Henderson(1945)
ChemistryRichard Henderson is a British molecular biologist and biophysicist and pioneer in the field of electron microscopy of biological molecules. Henderson shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2017 with Jacques Dubochet and Joachim Frank. "Thanks to his work, we can look at individual atoms of living nature, thanks to cryo-electron microscopes we can see details without destroying samples, and for this he won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry."
United KingdomMRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
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33,870
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Most Cited Works
Top publications by citation count#1
Use of salicylate with high pressure liquid chromatography and electrochemical detection (LCED) as a sensitive measure of hydroxyl free radicals in adriamycin treated rats.
Journal of Free Radicals in Biology & Medicine(1986)
178
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View all worksUse of salicylate with high pressure liquid chromatography and electrochemical detection (LCED) as a sensitive measure of hydroxyl free radicals in adriamycin treated rats.
Journal of Free Radicals in Biology & Medicine1986
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Career History
Group Leader (Emeritus)
MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Cambridge, GB
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Education
Yale University
University of Cambridge(Doctor of Philosophy)
University of Edinburgh
Corpus Christi College
Boroughmuir High School
Hawick High School
Academy Memberships
National Academy of Sciences (US)
Top Publications
Overview and future of single particle electron cryomicroscopy
Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics201592 citations
Charge accumulation in electron cryomicroscopy
Ultramicroscopy201864 citations
Structure determination by cryoEM at 100 keV
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences202345 citations
Microscopic charge fluctuations cause minimal contrast loss in cryoEM
Ultramicroscopy201841 citations
Community recommendations on cryoEM data archiving and validation
IUCrJ202432 citations
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Related Laureates
Other winners of the same award(s)

Demis Hassabis
Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2024)

Martin Rees
Wolf Prize in Physics (2024)
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John Ellis
Copley Medal (2019)

Derek Barton
Priestley Medal (1995)

John Cornforth
Wolf Prize in Chemistry (1983)

Peter D. Mitchell
Copley Medal (1981)

Frederick Sanger
Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1980)

Cyril Norman Hinshelwood
Copley Medal (1962)
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