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Hartmut Michel

Hartmut Michel

D-Index & Metrics

Chemistry

D-Index
88
Citations
40956
World Ranking
2238
National Ranking
164

Hartmut Michel publication distribution in Chemistry in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Chemistry in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Hartmut Michel sits on this spectrum.

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61 publications 1,295+

This scientist: 413 publications — 82nd percentile

82% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,295 publications or more.

Hartmut Michel D-index placement in Chemistry in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Chemistry scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Hartmut Michel sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 159+

This scientist: 88 D-Index — 88th percentile

88% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 159 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2005 - Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom
  • 1996 - Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 1996 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 1994 - Member of Academia Europaea
  • 1988 - Nobel Prize for the determination of the three-dimensional structure of a photosynthetic reaction centre

Overview

Hartmut Michel is affiliated with the Max Planck Society in Germany and has made contributions primarily in the field of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a particular focus on Molecular Biology, Genetics, Structural Biology, Materials Chemistry, and Oncology. Their research explores a range of topics including Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms, Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology, Advanced Electron Microscopy Techniques and Applications, ATP Synthase and ATPases Research, Drug Transport and Resistance Mechanisms, RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms, and Bacteriophages and microbial interactions.

The scientist has published extensively in various journals and venues. Frequent publication locations include:

  • Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Bioenergetics (6 publications)
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (5 publications)
  • Nature Communications (2 publications)
  • ChemMedChem (2 publications)
  • Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry (1 publication)

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Hartmut Michel include:

  • The cryo-EM structure of the bd oxidase from M. tuberculosis reveals a unique structural framework and enables rational drug design to combat TB, 2021, Nature Communications
  • Structural basis for amino acid exchange by a human heteromeric amino acid transporter, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Cryo-EM structures of intermediates suggest an alternative catalytic reaction cycle for cytochrome c oxidase, 2021, Nature Communications
  • Mechanistic and structural diversity between cytochrome bd isoforms of Escherichia coli, 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Cryo-EM structure of the whole photosynthetic reaction center apparatus from the green sulfur bacterium Chlorobaculum tepidum, 2023, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Collaborations have frequently involved the following co-authors:

  • Schara Safarian
  • Sonja Welsch
  • Hao Xie
  • Melanie Radloff
  • Gerhard Hummer

Their book contributions include a publication titled "Heterologous Expression of Membrane Proteins," released in 2022 by Springer Science+Business Media.

Hartmut Michel has been recognized with several awards, including the Nobel Prize awarded in 1988 for the determination of the three-dimensional structure of a photosynthetic reaction centre. Other honors include membership in the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences, both awarded in 1996, as well as election to the Academia Europaea in 1994 and recognition as a Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom, in 2005.

Best Publications

  • Structure of the protein subunits in the photosynthetic reaction centre of Rhodopseudomonas viridis at 3Å resolution

    Johann Deisenhofer;Otto Epp;Kunio Miki;Robert Huber

  • Structure at 2.8 A resolution of cytochrome c oxidase from Paracoccus denitrificans.

    So Iwata;Christian Ostermeier;Bernd Ludwig;Hartmut Michel

  • X-ray structure analysis of a membrane protein complex. Electron density map at 3 Å resolution and a model of the chromophores of the photosynthetic reaction center from Rhodopseudomonas viridis

    Johann Deisenhofer;Otto Epp;Kunio Miki;Robert Huber

  • The crystal structure of the light-harvesting complex II (B800–850) from Rhodospirillum molischianum

    Juergen Koepke;Xiche Hu;Cornelia Muenke;Klaus Schulten

  • Relevance of the photosynthetic reaction center from purple bacteria to the structure of photosystem II

    Hartmut Michel;Johann Deisenhofer

  • Structure of the photosynthetic reaction centre from Rhodobacter sphaeroides at 2.65 A resolution: cofactors and protein-cofactor interactions

    Ulrich Ermler;Günter Fritzsch;Susan K Buchanan;Hartmut Michel

  • Structure at 2.7 Å resolution of the Paracoccus denitrificans two-subunit cytochrome c oxidase complexed with an antibody FV fragment

    Christian Ostermeier;Axel Harrenga;Ulrich Ermler;Hartmut Michel

  • The Photosynthetic Reaction Center from the Purple Bacterium Rhodopseudomonas viridis.

    Johann Deisenhofer;Hartmut Michel

  • Structure of a Na + /H + antiporter and insights into mechanism of action and regulation by pH

    Carola Hunte;Emanuela Screpanti;Miro Venturi;Abraham Rimon

  • Crystallographic refinement at 2.3 A resolution and refined model of the photosynthetic reaction centre from Rhodopseudomonas viridis.

    Johann Deisenhofer;Otto Epp;Irmgard Sinning;Hartmut Michel

  • Nobel lecture. The photosynthetic reaction centre from the purple bacterium Rhodopseudomonas viridis

    Johann Deisenhofer;Hartmut Michel

  • Structure at 2.3 A resolution of the cytochrome bc(1) complex from the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae co-crystallized with an antibody Fv fragment.

    Carola Hunte;Juergen Koepke;Christian Lange;Tanja Roßmanith

  • Crystallization of Membrane Proteins

    Hartmut Michel

  • Pigment-protein interactions in the photosynthetic reaction centre from Rhodopseudomonas viridis.

    Hartmut Michel;Otto Epp;Johann Deisenhofer

  • Cytochrome c oxidase: structure and spectroscopy.

    H. Michel;J. Behr;and A. Harrenga;A. Kannt

  • Structural homology of reaction centers from Rhodopseudomonas sphaeroides and Rhodopseudomonas viridis as determined by x-ray diffraction.

    James P. Allen;G. Feher;T.O. Yeates;D.C. Rees

  • Overcoming barriers to membrane protein structure determination

    Roslyn M. Bill;Peter J. F. Henderson;So Iwata;Edmund R. S. Kunji

  • Spectral dynamics in the B800 band of LH2 from Rhodospirillum molischianum: a single-molecule study.

    Clemens Hofmann;Thijs J Aartsma;Hartmut Michel;Jürgen Köhler

  • Structure of fumarate reductase from Wolinella succinogenes at 2.2 Å resolution

    C. R. D. Lancaster;A. Kröger;M. Auer;M. Auer;H. Michel

  • Three-dimensional crystals of a membrane protein complex. The photosynthetic reaction centre from Rhodopseudomonas viridis.

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  • Structure of a water soluble fragment of the ‘Rieske’ iron–sulfur protein of the bovine heart mitochondrial cytochrome bc1 complex determined by MAD phasing at 1.5 å resolution

    So Iwata;Monica Saynovits;Thomas A Link;Hartmut Michel

  • The 'light' and 'medium' subunits of the photosynthetic reaction centre from Rhodopseudomonas viridis: isolation of the genes, nucleotide and amino acid sequence.

    Hartmut Michel;Karl Aloys Weyer;H. Gruenberg;I. Dunger

Frequent Co-Authors

Johann Deisenhofer
Johann Deisenhofer The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Bernd Ludwig
Bernd Ludwig Goethe University Frankfurt
Winfried Haase
Winfried Haase Max Planck Society
Ulrich Ermler
Ulrich Ermler Max Planck Society
Dieter Oesterhelt
Dieter Oesterhelt Max Planck Society
So Iwata
So Iwata Kyoto University
Friedrich Lottspeich
Friedrich Lottspeich Max Planck Society
Etana Padan
Etana Padan Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Wolfgang Zinth
Wolfgang Zinth Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Werner Mäntele
Werner Mäntele Goethe University Frankfurt

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