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Marin van Heel

Dutch biophysicist
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    …1980s, Frank and Dutch biophysicist Marin van Heel devised statistical methods to determine a particle’s three-dimensional structure from two-dimensional images. The image of a particle is represented as a vector. Similar vectors are assumed to be from particles with similar orientations, and the images of such similar particles are then…

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    …1980s, Frank and Dutch biophysicist Marin van Heel devised statistical methods to determine a particle’s three-dimensional structure from two-dimensional images. The image of a particle is represented as a vector. Similar vectors are assumed to be from particles with similar orientations, and the images of such similar particles are then…

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