The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2014 to Eric Betzig, Stefan W. Hell and William E. Moerner for the development of super-resolved fluorescence microscopy."
Eric Betzig Stefan Hell William Moerner
Optical microscopy was limited for a long time by the presumed limitation that it would never get resolution better than half the wavelength of light. In what is now known as 'nanoscopy' this year's Nobel Laureates circumvented this limitation, with the help of fluorescent molecules. Their pioneering work in the field of microscopy allows us to see how molecules create synapses between nerve cells, track proteins involved in Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease, and follow individual proteins as a fertilized egg divides into an embryo.
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