| Hartmut Michel  Born: 18-Jul-1948
Birthplace: Ludwigsburg, Germany
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Chemist Nationality: Germany
Executive summary: Proteins of photosynthesis Military service: German Army (1967-69) German biochemist Hartmut Michel developed a process that uses X-ray technology to determine the structure of large molecules. With his colleagues Robert Huber and Johann Deisenhofer, he explored the photosynthetic action center, a four-protein complex that is central to the process of photosynthesis, and won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1988. Father: Karl Michel (factory worker)
Mother: Freda Kachler Michel (dressmaker)
Wife: Ilona Leger-Michel (m. 1979)
Daughter: Andrea (b. 1981)
Son: Robert Joachim (b. 1984)
High School: Friedrich Schiller Gymnasium, Ludwigsburg, Germany (1967)
University: BS, University of Tübingen (1974)
University: PhD, University of Würzburg (1977)
Scholar: X-ray crystallography, University of Würzburg (1977)
Scholar: Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Martinsried, Germany (1979-87)
Administrator: Max Planck Institute of Biophysics, Frankfurt, Germany (1987-)
Professor: University of Frankfurt (1989-)
ACS Biological Physics Prize 1986 (with Johann Deisenhofer)
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize 1986
Otto Klung Weberbank Prize 1986
Nobel Prize for Chemistry 1988 (with Johann Deisenhofer and Robert Huber)
Otto Bayer Prize 1988 (with Johann Deisenhofer)
German Official German Science Council (2004-10)
Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences
Chinese Academy of Sciences Foreign Member
European Molecular Biology Organization
German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
German Chemical Society
German Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology President (1993-95)
Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science
National Academy of Sciences Foreign Associate
Royal Society Foreign Member
German Ancestry
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