RICHARD HENDERSON

Richard Henderson (b. 1945, in Edinburgh, Scotland) is the Director of the Laboratory of Molecular Biology of the Medical Research Council of the United Kingdom (MRC LMB). He got his B.Sc. in physics from the University of Edinburgh and has been with the MRC LMB since 1966, first as a Ph.D. student of Cambridge University and later as a staff member. Between 1970 and 1973, he was a postdoctoral fellow at Yale University. He was elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 1983 and Foreign Associate of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences in 1998. He has been awarded several prizes including the 1993 award of the Louis Jeantet Foundation in Geneva and the Aminoff Prize (Sweden) jointly with Nigel Unwin in 1999…