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Re: congratulations to Eric, Stefan and W.E. for Nobel Prize in Chemistry, for the development of super-resolved fluorescence microscopy
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What an amazing honour for our community! 

Congratulations to Stefan W. Hell, Eric Betzig and William E. Moerner!

And what next?

As Stefan said today: Back to business, because the Nobel Prize is not the end...

Good luck with all your current and future projects!

- Ulrike

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Subject: Re: congratulations to Eric, Stefan and W .E. for Nob el Prize in Chemistry, “ for the  development of super-reso lved fluores cence mi croscopy”

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On Wed, 8 Oct 2014 09:10:30 -0500, Martin Wessendorf <[log in to unmask]>
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>. --According to him, the rationale for the Prize was that STED and PALM
>can be used to view biochemistry happening in living organisms.

If you read the full scientific background document, it really seems like they were
giving the award for the work done back in the 1990s (e.g. Betzig's near-field
super-resolution imaging and his PALM precursor paper in 1995). Not just his 2006
paper.

http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/2014/advanced-
chemistryprize2014.pdf

But it's too bad they had to limit the prize to 3. The simultaneous
PALM/STORM/FPALM papers by Betzig, Zhuang, and Sam Hess really helped ignite
the field. And the list of single-molecule folks is really long (Yanagida, Webb, Zare,
Vale, Orrit, Rigler, Xie, Cremer). That said, Hell, Betzig, and Moerner are
unquestionably deserving and it's really exciting. (W.E. was my PhD advisor.)

I wrote a blog post about it here: http://blog.everydayscientist.com/?p=3254

-Sam

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