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Advertisement Johann Deisenhofer Encyclopedia Article Find Print E-mail Multimedia 1 item Johann Deisenhofer , born in 1943, German chemist and Nobel Prize winner. Deisenhofer contributed greatly to the understanding of photosynthesis , the transformation of sunlight into energy in plant tissue. He detailed the complete structure of a large protein complexâcalled the photosynthetic reaction centerâwithin the cell membrane of a plant bacterium. For this important research, which revitalized the study of photosynthesis, Deisenhofer was awarded the 1988 Nobel Prize in chemistry, which he shared with his collaborators, fellow German chemists Robert Huber and Hartmut Michel Born in Zusamaltheim, Deisenhofer received his Ph.D. degree from the Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry in 1974, and then became a researcher in Huber's laboratory. In 1988 Deisenhofer moved to the United States to work as a researcher at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute of the University of Texas in Dallas. He has also served as a professor of biochemistry at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, since 1989. In the complex process of photosynthesis, light absorbed by plant pigments, such as | |
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