Michel, Hartmut

1948–German biochemist and Nobel Prize winner who crystallized and determined the structure of the membrane protein involved in photosynthesis.

Keywords: proteins; photosynthesis

 Further Reading
    Michel H (1983) Crystallization of membrane proteins. Trends in Biochemical Science 8: 56–59.
    Michel H (1984) X-ray structure of a membrane protein complex. Journal of Molecular Biology 180: 385–398.
    Michel H (1985) Structure of protein subunits in the photosynthetic reaction center of Rhodopseudomonas viridis. Nature 318: 19–26.
    Editorial (1988) Science 242: 672–673.
    book De Paula JC (1993) "Michel, Deisenhofer and Huber". James LK Nobel Laureates Chemistry 1901–1992, pp. 729–735. Washington DC: American Chemical Society
    Hall N and MacKenzie D (1988) A whiff of cordite over chemistry prize. New Scientist 120: 31–32.
    book Magill FN (ed.) (1990) The Nobel Prize Winners Chemistry, vol. 3, pp. 1223–1231. Pasadena, CA: Salem Press.
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Brock, WH(Apr 2001) Michel, Hartmut. In: eLS. John Wiley & Sons Ltd, Chichester. http://www.els.net [doi: 10.1038/npg.els.0002401]