Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded for microscopy – BFM.Ru

Its owners became Eric Betsig, Stefan Hell and William Merner

Two Americans and the Germans have won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 2014, “opening a window into the nanoworld via development of fluorescence microscopy with superresolution. ” Reported by Boston Herald. Read also: In Stockholm, will be declared winners of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

Opening scientists Eric Bettsiga and William of Merner United States, as well as Hella Stefan from Germany is that they have developed new methods to using microscopes to see very small particles. At the Nobel Committee at the Royal Academy of Sciences believe that the development of scientists will surpass the maximum resolution of conventional optical microscopes. “Their pioneering work has increased optical microscopy to nanoizmereny”, – stressed the members of the Academy.

Bettsigu 54 years old, he works in the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (Virginia). Hella 51 years old, he is the director of the Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Max Planck in Göttingen. A 61-year-old Merner – a professor at Stanford University, which is located in California.

The Nobel Prize in Literature will be announced on Thursday, October 9. Then will be announced prize winners in economics. Previously were named winners of the award in the field of physics. They were Japanese scientists Isamu Akasaki and Hiroshi Amano, and Shuji Nakamura of the United States. Nobel Prize in Medicine received Norwegians John O`Kif and Mai-Britt, and besides – Briton Edward Moser.