The 2017 Nobel Prize for Chemistry was awarded to three scientists (Jacques Dubochet, Joachim Frank and Richard Henderson) for developing cryo-electron microscopy for high-resolution structure determination of biomolecules in solutions. In this paper their work on the development of cryo-electron microscopy technique is briefly introduced and an outlook for the future development of this technique is also presented.

2017 Nobel Prize for Chemistry  /  cryo-electron microscopy  /  structure of macromolecules