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Joachim Frank

Joachim Frank

main contribution

developed a single-particle electron microscopy image processing method and won the 2017 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

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The following cases cite their theories, methods or industry contributions; the historical basis does not mean that I directly participated in or invented modern products alone.

Thermo Scientific Krios Cryo-EM ↗

Vitrified preservation reduces structural changes caused by drying; multiple low signal-to-noise ratio projections are aligned, classified and reconstructed to recover three-dimensional information. The resolution is determined by the sample, imaging and calculation.

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