STOCKHOLM, Oct. 8 (PNA/Xinhua) — Americans Eric Betzig, William E. Moerner, and German scientist Stefan W. Hell won this year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced on Wednesday.
The academy said the award was given to the three “for the development of super-resolved fluorescence microscopy.”
Nobel Laureate Hell said in an on-site telephone interview that the discovery is “important for understanding physiology and disease,” and that he had been quite “confident” in his instinct and kept on the development. Hell currently works at the German Cancer Research Center
Americans Betzig and Moerner are from U.S. Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Stanford University, respectively. (PNA/Xinhua)