The Nobel Prize in Chemistry was the second that Alfred Nobel mentioned in his will establishing the prizes. The first chemistry prize was awarded in 1901.
2017: Jacques Dubochet, University of Lausanne, Switzerland, Joachim Frank, Columbia University, New York, and Richard Henderson, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, "for developing cryo-electron microscopy for the high-resolution structure determination of biomolecules in solution.
View an image biomolecules at the atomic level.
Cryo-electron microscopy produced this 3D image of the Zika virus.
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2017: Jacques Dubochet, University of Lausanne, Switzerland, Joachim Frank, Columbia University, New York, and Richard Henderson, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, "for developing cryo-electron microscopy for the high-resolution structure determination of biomolecules in solution.
View an image biomolecules at the atomic level.
Cryo-electron microscopy produced this 3D image of the Zika virus.
Credit: molekuul_be/Shutterstock & livescience
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