Joachim Frank, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Joachim Frank

German-born American biophysicist and Nobel laureate

Date of Birth: 12-Sep-1940

Place of Birth: Weidenau, Free State of Prussia, Germany

Profession: chemist, biophysicist

Nationality: United States, Germany

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Joachim Frank (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.
He also made significant contributions to structure and function of the ribosome from bacteria and eukaryotes.