Nobel prize in chemistry awarded for method to visualise biomolecules

Jacques Dubochet, Joachim Frank and Richard Henderson receive 825,000 prize for developing method for generating 3D images of life-building structures

The Nobel prize in chemistry has been awarded to three scientists for developing a technique to produce images of the molecules of life frozen in time.

Jacques Dubochet, Joachim Frank and Richard Henderson will receive equal shares of the 9m Swedish kronor (825,000) prize, which was announced by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm on Wednesday.