This year, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been attributed by The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences to:
Jacques Dubochet
(University of Lausanne, Switzerland),
Joachim Frank
(Columbia University, New York, USA),
Richard Henderson
(and MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK),
for the development of cryo-electron microscopy, allowing researchers to see biological molecules frozen in action. This method has moved biochemistry into a new era.