The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2014
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2014 was awarded jointly to Eric Betzig, Stefan W. Hell and William E. Moerner "for the development of super-resolved fluorescence microscopy".
Eric Betzig
Born: 13 January 1960, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
Affiliation at the time of the award: Janelia Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Ashburn, VA, USA
Prize motivation: "for the development of super-resolved fluorescence microscopy"
Field: physical chemistry
Stefan W. Hell
Born: 23 December 1962, Arad, Romania
Affiliation at the time of the award: Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen, Germany, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany
Prize motivation: "for the development of super-resolved fluorescence microscopy"
Field: physical chemistry
William E. Moerner
Born: 24 June 1953, Pleasanton, CA, USA
Affiliation at the time of the award: Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
Prize motivation: "for the development of super-resolved fluorescence microscopy"
Field: physical chemistry
Stefan W. Hell winner of The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2014
