Seeing biomolecules: Scot among Nobel Prize trio who started biochemistry revolution

Dr Richard Henderson, one of three scientists sharing the 2017 Nobel Prize in chemistry for improving images made of biological molecules, looks at a model of a bacteriorhodopsin, as he speaks at the Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, where he works.

Edinburgh-born Dr Henderson said: “I am delighted for everybody in the field that the Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to acknowledge the success of cryo-em. I am particularly pleased that Jacques Dubochet has been recognised as the key person who kick-started the field with his method of rapidfreezing.”