Johann Deisenhofer is a biochemist and biophysicist whose career has been devoted to analyzing the composition of molecular structures. An expert in the use of X-ray technology to analyze the structure of crystals, he became part of a team of...

Biochemist and biophysicist Johann Deisenhofer (born 1943) devised a way to use X-ray technology to map the chemical reactions central to plant photosynthesis, earning him the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1988. Deisenhofer has spent his career...

1943- German chemist who received the 1988 Nobel Prize for Chemistry, which he shared with Robert Huber and Hartmut Michel. Deisenhofer contributed to the understanding of photosynthesis, the transformation of sunlight into energy in plants. Using...

Johann Deisenhofer (born September 30, 1943) is a German biochemist who, along with Hartmut Michel and Robert Huber, received the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1988 for their determination of the structure of a membrane-bound complex of proteins and...

German chemist Johann Deisenhofer shared the 1988 Nobel Prize in chemistry with Robert Huber (1937- ) and Hartmut Michel (1948- ) for determining the structure of certain proteins that are essential to photosynthesis. Michel crystallized the membrane-bound protein from the photosynthetic reaction center of...