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Xiaowei Zhuang

Chinese American biophysicist · United States · On the map · Scientists · Born 1972 · age 54

Xiaowei Zhuang is a Chinese-American biophysicist who is the David B. Arnold Jr. Professor of Science, Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, and Professor of Physics at Harvard University, and an Investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.

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2026Ernest Solvay PrizeAward2022Heinrich Wieland PrizeAwardJ. Allyn Taylor International Prize in MedicineAward2021Lurie Prize in Biomedical SciencesAward2019Breakthrough Prize in Life SciencesAwardNAS Award for Scientific ReviewingAward2018Dr H.P. Heineken Prize for Biochemistry and BiophysicsAward2015NAS Award in Molecular BiologyAward2012Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of ScienceAward2011Sackler Prize for BiophysicsAward2008Coblentz AwardAward2007ACS Award in Pure ChemistryAward2003MacArthur Fellows ProgramAwardPackard Fellowship for Science and EngineeringAward1972Born21 January 1972

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Awards

Ernest Solvay Prize2026
J. Allyn Taylor International Prize in Medicine2022
Heinrich Wieland Prize2022
Lurie Prize in Biomedical Sciences2021
Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences2019
Pearl Meister Greengard Prize2019
NAS Award for Scientific Reviewing2019
Dr H.P. Heineken Prize for Biochemistry and Biophysics2018
NAS Award in Molecular Biology2015
Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science2012
Sackler Prize for Biophysics2011
Max Delbrück Prize in Biological Physics2010
Coblentz Award2008
ACS Award in Pure Chemistry2007
MacArthur Fellows Program2003
Packard Fellowship for Science and Engineering2003
EMBO Membership
Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Awards

About this person

She is best known for her work in the development of Stochastic Optical Reconstruction Microscopy (STORM), a super-resolution fluorescence microscopy method, and the discoveries of novel cellular structures using STORM. She received a 2019 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences for developing super-resolution imaging techniques that get past the diffraction limits of traditional light microscopes, allowing scientists to visualize small structures within living cells. She was elected a Member of the American Philosophical Society in 2019 and was awarded a Vilcek Foundation Prize in Biomedical Science in 2020.

Country
United States
Category
Scientists
Type
Scientist
Status
Living
Dates
Born 1972 · age 54