Hartmut Michel (1948- )

Awarded the Prize “for the determination of the three-dimensional structure of a photosynthetic reaction centre.”

German chemist. Michel was born at Lüdwigsburg in Germany on July 18, 1948. He was educated at the University of Warburg, where he obtained his Ph.D. in 1977. He moved to the Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry, remained there until 1987, when he moved to Frankfurt to head the biophysics division.