Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American scientist Joachim Frank.
Last updated on November 21, 2024.
Joachim Frank is a German-American biophysicist at Columbia University and a Nobel laureate. He is regarded as the founder of single-particle cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM), for which he shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2017 with Jacques Dubochet and Richard Henderson. He also made significant contributions to structure and function of the ribosome from bacteria and eukaryotes.
Medicine is no longer looking at organs. It looks at the processes inside the cell.
There are really so many subtleties of meaning and observation that very often are not expressed by writers.
I think I have a heavily compartmentalized brain, which means that certain routines are simply running without me realizing it.
I love the English language, the colors of it, the many, many nuances, the different influences. I find German stilted, in a way, by comparison.
I do think that deciding between a particular discovery and a technological breakthrough - I would always think the impact is probably much larger for the technological breakthrough.
I thought the chances of becoming a Nobel Prize laureate were minuscule because there are so many other innovations and discoveries that happen almost every day.