Richard Henderson (biologist)
Richard Henderson (b. 1945 in Scotland) is a British molecular biologist and pioneer in the field of electron microscopy of biological molecules. Henderson was educated at Edinburgh University (B.Sc. Hons in Physics, 1st Class). He completed his PhD research under the supervision of David Blow at the Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology and received the degree from Cambridge University in 1969. He has worked at the Medical Research Council's Laboratory of Molecular Biology (MRC LMB) in Cambridge since 1973, and was its director between 1996 and 2006.
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1983, and has been awarded the William Bate Hardy Prize (1978), the Ernst-Ruska Prize for Electron Microscopy (1981), the Lewis S. Rosenstiel Award (1991), the Louis Jeantet Award (1993), and the Gregori Aminoff prize (together with Nigel Unwin, 1999).
References
- CV of Richard Henderson
- "Announcement of Newly Elected Honorary Members" from the British Biophysical Society
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