Hartmut Michel

Hartmut Michel
Hartmut Michel in 2013
Born (1948-07-18) 18 July 1948 (age 76)
NationalityGerman
Alma materUniversity of Tübingen
Known forCrystallisation of membrane proteins
SpouseElena Olkhova
Awards
Scientific career
FieldsBiochemistry
InstitutionsMax 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]

  1. ^ "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. Archived from the original on 3 March 2017. Retrieved 30 March 2011.
  4. ^ Iwata, S.; Ostermeier, C.; Ludwig, B.; Michel, H. (1995). "Structure at 2.8 Å resolution of cytochrome c oxidase from Paracoccus denitrificans". Nature. 376 (6542): 660–9. Bibcode:1995Natur.376..660I. doi:10.1038/376660a0. PMID 7651515. S2CID 4345523.
  5. ^ Deisenhofer, J.; Epp, O.; Miki, K.; Huber, R.; Michel, H. (1984). "X-ray structure analysis of a membrane protein complex". Journal of Molecular Biology. 180 (2): 385–98. doi:10.1016/S0022-2836(84)80011-X. PMID 6392571.