Barcelona. (Agencies / Writing) .- Americans Eric Betzig and William E. Moerner and German Stefan W. Hell have won the 2014 Nobel Chemistry to develop the Fluorescent microscopy , today announced the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
The jury would like to acknowledge the work of the three winners in development of microscopes “high resolution” which also employ a technique called “fluorescent molecules,” “nanoscopy”.
This allows studying “single molecules inside living cells”, something hitherto impossible with the techniques of traditional optical microscopes.
This development has contributed to the study of diseases such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s, as well as in the analysis of cognitive processes in the neurons of the brain, explained the jury.
The American Eric Betzig, born 1960, holds a PhD from Cornell University in Ithaca (New York) and currently works at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Ashburn (USA).
The German Stefan W. Hell, born in Romania in 1962, his Ph.D. from the University of Heidelberg and today directs the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen (Germany) and the German Center for Cancer Research of Heildelberg.
The third award-winning, American William E. Moerner, was born in 1953 and after as Betzig doctorate at Cornell University, working at Stanford University.
The winners divided equally 8 million kronor (879,000 euros, 1.1 million dollars) which is provided the prize.
In the past year, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry to three researchers to develop universal systems that have revolutionized the study of chemistry and applications in many fields, from medicine to mechanics.
The winners were Martin Karplus Austrian, British Michael Levitt and Arieh Warshel Israel, who had developed multiscale models for chemical systems complex allowing join two before opposing camps, classical chemistry and quantum chemistry, as noted Academy.
The announcement of the winners of paragraph Chemistry today followed the Physical match, which went to Isamu Akasaki researchers, Hiroshi Amano and Shuji Nakamura for his “invention of efficient blue light emitting diode, which has enabled bright white light sources and energy saving”; and Medicine, awarded Monday to the American John O’Keefe and Norwegian marriage of May Britt Moser and Edvard I. Moser “for their discoveries of cells comprising a positioning system in the brain.”
Scientists will follow the awards for literature, to be delivered next Thursday, the Peace, on Friday, and the Economy Monday.
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