Nobel Prize for Chemistry awarded for nanoscale microscopy work

The award recognises two scientists from 바카라사이트 US and one from Germany, who developed super-resolved fluorescence microscopy.

They are Eric Betzig of 바카라사이트 Howard Hughes Medical Institute; Stefan Hell of 바카라사이트 Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry and 바카라사이트 German Cancer Research Center; and William Moerner, from Stanford University.

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The trio brought optical microscopy into 바카라사이트 nanodimension, according to a statement from 바카라사이트 Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.

In 2000 Professor Hell developed a process known as stimulated emission depletion microscopy. This uses two lasers to scan a sample and gives higher resolution images than was previously possible.

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Nanoscopy is now used globally to produce new knowledge that is of great benefit to mankind.

None of 바카라사이트 winners has appeared on a list of predicted Nobel winners compiled each year by Thomson Reuters citation analyst David Pendlebury.

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