The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2014

Eric Betzig

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Prize share: 1/3

Stefan W. Hell

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Prize share: 1/3

William E. Moerner

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Prize share: 1/3

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2014 was awarded jointly to Eric Betzig, Stefan W. Hell and William E. Moerner "for the development of super-resolved fluorescence microscopy."

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