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Henderson shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2017 with Jacques Dubochet and Joachim Frank. \"Thanks to his work, we can look at individual atoms of living nature, thanks to cryo-electron microscopes we can see details without destroying samples, and for this he won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.\"","summary_more":[],"facts":[{"key":"born","label":"Born","values":[{"text":"19 July 1945","date":"1945-07-19"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1678456#P569"}},{"key":"birthplace","label":"Place of birth","values":[{"text":"Edinburgh","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q23436"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1678456#P19"}},{"key":"citizenship","label":"Citizenship","values":[{"text":"United Kingdom","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q145"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1678456#P27"}},{"key":"occupation","label":"Occupation","values":[{"text":"molecular biologist","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15839206"},{"text":"biochemist","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2919046"},{"text":"chemist","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q593644"},{"text":"crystallographer","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15142825"},{"text":"biologist","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q864503"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1678456#P106"}},{"key":"education","label":"Education","values":[{"text":"University of Cambridge","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q35794","end":"1970"},{"text":"University of Edinburgh","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q160302"},{"text":"Corpus Christi College","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q536282"},{"text":"Yale University","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q49112"},{"text":"Boroughmuir High School","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4946360"},{"text":"Hawick High School","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5684760"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1678456#P69"}},{"key":"awards","label":"Awards","values":[{"text":"Fellow of the Royal Society","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15631401"},{"text":"Rosenstiel Award","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1577949","date":"1990"},{"text":"Ernst Ruska Prize","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15808454","date":"1980"},{"text":"William Bate Hardy Prize","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17060634","date":"1978"},{"text":"Alexander Hollaender Award in Biophysics","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4360984","date":"2016"},{"text":"Sir Hans Krebs Medal","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q23055166","date":"1984"},{"text":"Gregori Aminoff Prize","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q900321","date":"1999"},{"text":"Nobel Prize in Chemistry","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q44585","date":"2017"},{"text":"Copley Medal","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q28003","date":"2016"},{"text":"Companion of Honour","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16947520","date":"2018"},{"text":"Louis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14324534","date":"1993"},{"text":"honorary doctor of ETH Zürich","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q62505651","date":"2017"},{"text":"Glenn T. 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