Joachim Frank Hon. FRMS is a German-American biophysicist at Columbia University and a Nobel laureate. He is regarded as the founder of single-particle cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM), for which he shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2017 with Jacques Dubochet and Richard Henderson. He also made significant contributions to structure and function of the ribosome from bacteria and eukaryotes. Prof. Joachim Frank is a great inter-disciplinary researcher who has been using his expertise in Chemistry and Physics to solve problems in Biology.