Hartmut Michel, born July 18, 1948
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1988

"For the success with the crystallization of membrane proteins and the elucidation of the three-dimensional structure of the photosynthetic reaction centre from the purple bacterium Rhodopseudomonas viridis I received various prizes and awards. Among these are the Biophysics Prize of the American Physical Society (together with d. Deisenhofer), the "Chemiedozentenstipendium" of the "Fonds der Chemischen Industrie", the "Otto Klung-Preis" for chemistry, the Leibniz-Preis of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, the "Otto-Bayer-Preis" (together with J. Deisenhofer) and now the Nobel Prize (together with J. Deisenhofer and R. Huber)."

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