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Romanian-German physicist (born 1962) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Stefan Walter Hell (German pronunciation: [ˈʃtɛfan ˈhɛl] ⓘ: born 23 December 1962) is a Romanian-German physicist and one of the directors of the Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences in Göttingen,[1] and of the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research in Heidelberg,[2] 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.[3]
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Born | (1962-12-23) 23 December 1962 (age 61) Arad, Romania |
Citizenship | Germany Romania |
Alma mater | Heidelberg University |
Occupation | Physicist |
Known for | STED microscopy RESOLFT GSD microscopy 4Pi microscope Multifocal multiphoton microscopy Three photon microscopy |
Awards | Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2014) Kavli Prize in Nanoscience (2014) Otto Hahn Prize (2009) Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize (2008) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Physics, optics |
Institutions | Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences (1997–) Max Planck Institute for Medical Research (2016–) German Cancer Research Center (2003–17) University of Turku (1993–96) |
Thesis | Imaging of transparent microstructures in a confocal microscope (1990) |
Doctoral advisor | Siegfried Hunklinger [de] |
Notable students | Ilaria Testa (postdoc) Francisco Balzarotti (postdoc) |
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