Richard Henderson(1945)

Chemistry

Richard 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."

3
Major Awards
497
Publications
33,870
Citations
78
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245
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Career History

Group Leader (Emeritus)

MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology

Cambridge, GB

1973 — Present

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

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