Johann Deisenhofer:
Johann Deisenhofer is a German biochemist and Nobel laureate.
Birth:
September 30, 1943, Zusamaltheim, Germany
Claim to Fame:
Deisenhofer is a German biochemist who shares the 1988 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Robert Huber and Hartmut Michel for the determination of the structure of the proteins essential for photosynthesis. They used x-ray crystallography to determine the structure of the protein and greatly increased the understanding of the mechanism of photosynthesis of plants and bacteria.
