The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1988

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1988 The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded this year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry to

Dr Johann Deisenhofer University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, USA	Professor Robert Huber Max-Planck-Institut für Biochemie, Martinsried, FRG	Dr Hartmut Michel Max-Planck-Institut für Biophysik, Frankfurt/Main, FRG
for the determination of the three-dimensional structure of a photosynthetic reaction center.

Contents:
Introduction » The first crystals of membrane proteins » The structure of photosynthetic reaction center » Photosynthesis: Chemical energy from light » A closeup of a photosynthetic primary reaction » Highlights in photosynthesis research » Perspective » Further reading »
Based on materials from the 1988 Nobel Poster for Chemistry. Credits and references for the poster »