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Stefan W. Hell

Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2014. Stefan Hell received the Nobel Prize for developing super-resolved fluorescence microscopy. He is a director at the Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences in Göttingen and the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research in Heidelberg, Germany.

Stefan Hell is a director at both the Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences in Göttingen and the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research in Heidelberg, Germany.  

Hell received his doctorate in physics from the University of Heidelberg in 1990. From 1991 to 1993 he worked at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory, followed by stays as a senior researcher at the University of Turku, Finland, between 1993 and 1996, and as a visiting scientist at the University of Oxford, England, in 1994. In 1997 he was appointed to the MPI for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen (now Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences) as a group leader and was promoted to director in 2002. 

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    Our Future with AI

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    How can we ensure that AI helps make the future better? Join Nobel Prize laureates Geoffrey Hinton, often called the godfather of AI, and Serge Haroche, a pioneer in experimental quantum physics, in a frank conversation exploring what we need to do to create the path to a world in which AI delivers improved wellbeing for all.