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Papers of Johann Deisenhofer
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Johann Deisenhofer was born in Bavaria in 1943. Educated at the Technical University of Munich, he pursued post-graduate studies at the Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry, Martinsried. In 1988 he relocated to the United States taking a position as Medical Researcher at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute of the Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas.
For a more detailed inventory, please view this record in our library catalog: https://othmerlib.sciencehistory.org/record=b1051096~S6
The bulk of the collection contains material from the period immediately preceding and following Johann Deisenhofer's being awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry.
Deisenhofer's post-1987 correspondence files are preserved in CD-Rom format.
Source of acquisition--Johann Deisenhofer. Method of acquisition--gift;; Date of acquisition--2007..
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Portions of the notebooks may contain sensitive material subject to research restrictions. See Senior Archivist..