Richard Henderson (molecular biologist)

Richard Henderson (b. 1945 in Scotland) is a British molecular biologist. Henderson was educated at Edinburgh University (B.Sc. Hons in Physics, 1st Class) and Cambridge University (Ph.D. 1969). He has worked at the Medical Research Council's Laboratory of Molecular Biology (MRC LMB) in Cambridge since 1973, and has been its director since 1996.

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1983, and has been awarded the William Bate Hardy Prize (1978), the Ernst-Ruska Prize for Electron Microscopy (1981), the Lewis S. Rosenstiel Award (1991), the Louis Jeantet Award (1993), and the Gregori Aminoff prize (together with Nigel Unwin, 1999).