Harry F. Noller

Francis Harry Noller ( born June 10, 1939 in Oakland, California) is an American molecular biologist and since 1992 director of the Center for Molecular Biology of RNA at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Under his guidance, the bacterium Thermus thermophilus was the world's first with the help of X-ray crystallography, the complete structure of a ribosome decrypted. Subsequent work led to more detailed insights, such as ribosomes translate the genetic information from messenger RNA in the synthesis of proteins.

Harry Noller was 1960, the Bachelor's exam (BA ) in Biochemistry at the University of California, Berkeley in 1965 and a doctorate in chemistry with Sidney A. Bernhard at the University of Oregon. He then worked until 1968 in the Institute of Molecular Biology, University of Geneva in Alfred Tissières. In 1968 he went back to California and has since worked at the University of California, Santa Cruz, first as a researcher and since 1973 as a lecturer in the Department of Biology since 1979 as a professor of molecular biology, cell biology and developmental biology.

Noller is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences since 1992., 2004 Massry Prize and the 2007 Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize - for his work in the field of RNA and ribosome research him were - together with Ada Yonath also in 2007 he received the Gairdner Foundation International Award. For 2012 Gregori Aminoff him the prize and an honorary doctorate from the University of Geneva were awarded.