Johann Deisenhofer#
| Membership Number: | 650 |
| Membership type: | FOREIGN |
| Section: | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 1989 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED STATES |
Present and Previous Positions
- 1989 - present Virginia and Edward Linthicum Distinguished Chair in Biomolecular Science, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
- 2012 - present Regental Professor and Professor in Biophysics, Green Center for Systems Biology, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
- 1988 - 2012 Regental Professor and Professor in Biochemistry, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
- 1988 - 2010 Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
- 1976-1988 Staff Scientist, Max-Planck-Institute for Biochemistry
- 1974 -1976 Research Associate
Fields of Scholarship
- Structure and function of biological macromolecules
- Protein crystallography
- Computational biology
Honours and Awards
- 1986 Biological Physics Price of the American Physical Society (shared with H. Michel)
- 1988 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for "for the determination of the three-dimensional structure of a photosynthetic reaction centre" (shared with R. Huber and H. Michel)
- 1988 Otto-Bayer-Preis (shared with H. Michel)
- 1990 The Knight Commander's Cross (Badge and Star) of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
- 1992 Bavarian Order of Merit
- 1993 D. Sc. h.c., Drury College, Springfield, Missouri
- 1995 Kentucky Colonel
- 1996 D. Sc. h.c., Burdwan University, West Bengal, India
- 2004 Röntgen-Plaquette (City of Remscheid, Germany, birthplace of Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen)
- Memberships
- Academia Europaea
- German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina
- National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
- The Academy of Medicine, Engineering, and Science of Texas
- American Association for the Advancement of Science (Fellow)
- American Crystallographic Association (Fellow)
- American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
- Biophysical Society
- German Biophysical Society
- German Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
- Federation of American Scientists (Sponsor)
- Protein Society
- Sigma Xi
