Nobel Laureate Richard Henderson: Come to Brno and do your undergraduate degree there!
28. February 2023
You heard it first from a Nobel Laureate: #brnoregion should be on every student's radar. In the latest Hyde Park Civilization interview, Professor Richard Henderson recommended students start their academic career in Brno – the centre of research and development for electron microscopy.
Richard Henderson (born 19 July 1945) is a British molecular biologist and biophysicist and pioneer in the field of electron microscopy of biological molecules. Henderson shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2017 with Jacques Dubochet and Joachim Frank.
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