Stefan Hell
Director at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen, Germany · Germany · Scientists · Born 1962 · age 63
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Something wrong?Stefan Walter Hell is a Romanian-German physicist and one of the directors of the Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences in Göttingen, and of the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research in Heidelberg, both of which are in Germany.
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Stefan Walter Hell is a Romanian-German physicist and one of the directors of the Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences in Göttingen, and of the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research in Heidelberg, both of which are in Germany. He received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2014 "for the development of super-resolved fluorescence microscopy", together with Eric Betzig and William Moerner.
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Peter GrünbergBoth received German Future Prize
Georg NagelBoth received Karl Heinz Beckurts Award
Ferenc KrauszBoth received Otto Hahn Prize
Gerd BinnigBoth received Kavli Prize in Nanoscience
Christiane Nüsslein-VolhardBoth received Hall of Fame of German Research
Robert B. LaughlinBoth received Onsager MedalFame.am measures public visibility signals. It does not measure human value, talent, morality, or credibility.