Hartmut Michel

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Hartmut Michel
Hartmut Michel in 2013
Born (1948-07-18) 18 July 1948 (age 75)
Ludwigsburg, Württemberg-Baden, American Zone, Allied-occupied Germany
(now in Baden-Württemberg, Germany)
NationalityGerman
Alma materUniversity of Tübingen
Known forCrystallisation of membrane proteins
SpouseElena Olkhova
Awards
Scientific career
Fields
Max Planck Institute for Biophysics
Websitewww.biophys.mpg.de/en/michel.html

Hartmut Michel (German pronunciation: [ˈhaʁtmuːt ˈmɪçl̩] ⓘ; born 18 July 1948) is a German biochemist, who received the 1988 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for determination of the first crystal structure of an integral membrane protein, a membrane-bound complex of proteins and co-factors that is essential to photosynthesis.[2][3][4][5]

Education and early life

He was born on 18 July 1948 in

halobacteria
.

Career and research

Hartmut later[

photosynthetic reaction center, was known to play a crucial role in initiating a simple type of photosynthesis. Between 1982 and 1985, the three scientists used X-ray crystallography to determine the exact arrangement of the more than 10,000 atoms that make up the protein complex. Their research increased the general understanding of the mechanisms of photosynthesis, revealed similarities between the photosynthetic processes of plants and bacteria and established a methodology for crystallising membrane proteins.[6]

Since 1987 he has been director of the Molecular Membrane Biology department at the

Max Planck Institute for Biophysics in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, and professor of biochemistry at the Goethe University Frankfurt
.

Awards and honours

In 1986, he received the

Foreign Member of the Royal Society (ForMemRS) in 2005.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b "Professor Hartmut Michel ForMemRS". London: Royal Society. Archived from the original on 26 October 2015.
  2. ^ "Autobiographical information on Hartmut at www.nobel.org". Retrieved 4 October 2021.
  3. ^ "P3 Hartmut Michel". www.sfb807.de.
  4. S2CID 4345523
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  5. PMID 6392571
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  6. S2CID 1551692
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  7. ^ "Bijvoet Medal". Bijvoet Center for Biomolecular Research. Archived from the original on 12 September 2017. Retrieved 12 September 2017.
  8. ^ "Hartmut Michel". German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina. Retrieved 1 June 2021.
  9. ^ "H. Michel". Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Archived from the original on 13 February 2016. Retrieved 13 February 2016.

External links

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