Trio get 2017 Chemistry Nobel for ‘capturing life in atomic detail’
Trio get 2017 Chemistry Nobel for ‘capturing life in atomic detail’
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Jacques Dubochet, Joachim Frank and Richard Henderson shared the prize for developing cryo-electron microscopy.

Scientists Jacques Dubochet, Joachim Frank and Richard Henderson won the 2017 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for developing cryo-electron microscopy which simplifies and improves the imaging of bimolecular, the award-giving body said on October 4.

One of Chemistry World’s columnists Derek Lowe in recent times wrote an interesting take on cryo-EM after another chemistry Nobel for a microscopy technique – the 2014 prize – it’s a bit of a surprise.

“This method has moved biochemistry into a new-fangled era,” the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said in a statement awarding the 9 million Swedish crowns ($1.1 million) prize.

“Researchers can now freeze bimolecular mid-movement and visualize processes they have never up to that time seen, which is decisive for both the basic understanding of life's chemistry and for the development of pharmaceuticals.”

Chemistry is the third of this year's Nobel Prizes after the winners of the medicine and physics prizes were announced earlier this week.

The prizes are named after dynamite inventor Alfred Nobel and have been awarded since 1901 for achievements in science, literature, and peace in accordance with his will.

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