Johann Deisenhofer made a career in science at a time when the terms of that career were still being set.
The record lists Johann Deisenhofer as German scientist.
Johann Deisenhofer was born at Zusamaltheim in 1943. His recorded nationality is Germany. He was educated at Technical University of Munich.
The twentieth century made work collective, expensive and political, with consequences that reached well beyond the people doing it.
The record gives his occupations as biochemist, chemist and physicist.
His affiliations include University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Technical University of Munich and Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
A scientific contribution counts if the next generation could build on it without re-checking.
His recorded fields of work are biochemistry.
The honours are a fair index of how the work was received - Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1988) and Knight Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.
Working from Germany shaped what was possible - the audiences within reach, the institutions that would have him, the language the work first appeared in.
Johann Deisenhofer is still at work, and the final assessment has not been made - the ordinary condition of a living career.
Achievements
- Nobel Prize in Chemistry — 1988
- Knight Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
- Affiliated with University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Technical University of Munich and Howard Hughes Medical Institute
- Educated at Technical University of Munich
- Worked as biochemist, chemist and physicist
