Special Report On "2014 Nobel Prize For Chemistry" - Thanthi TV 2 Americans, 1 German win 2014 Nobel prize for chemistry...Eric Betzig from Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Ashburn, Stefan W Hell from the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry,... By: Thanthi TV … Continue reading →

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Two Americans and a German were awarded theNobel Prize in chemistry on Wednesday for pioneering methods that allow researchers to peer into the molecular workings of living things on a scale that could not be achieved with ordinary optical microscopes. Eric Betzig, 54, who works at Howard Hughes Medical Institute's Janelia Research Campus in Ashburn, Va.and William Moerner, 61, of Stanford University, were recognized for breakthroughs that give researchers the ability to switch fluorescent molecules on and off, allowing them to create finely detailed images of biological processes, according to the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, which grants the prizes. German scientist Stefan Hell, 51, director at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Goettingen, Germany,was credited with laying the theoretical groundwork for another technique using two laser beams, one to stimulate fluorescence and another to cancel out all but the tiniest wave lengths of its light. "Their groundbreaking work has brought optical microscopy into the nanodimension," the academy said. The Nobel recipients "allowed us to see the previously unseen lifting the veil on bacteria, viruses, proteins and small molecules," saidTom Barton, president of the American Chemical Society, which has published their work. The relatively new field, known as … Continue reading →

American scientists Eric Betzig and William Moerner and Germany's Stefan Hell won the 2014 Nobel Prize for chemistry for the development of super-resolved fluorescence microscopy, the award-giving body said on Wednesday. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarding the 8 million crown ($1.1 million) prize said the three scientists' research had made it possible to study molecular processes in real time. "Due to their achievements the optical microscope can now peer into the nanoworld," the academy said in a statement. Betzig works at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute in Ashburn, United States, while Moerner is professor at Stanford University. Hell is Director of the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Germany. Chemistry was the third of this year's Nobel prizes. The prize is named after dynamite inventor Alfred Nobel and has been awarded since 1901 for achievements in science, literature and peace in accordance with his will. The chemistry prize has often lived in the shadow of physics and its star scientists such as Albert Einstein, though it was the field that was arguably closest to the heart of Nobel's own work developing dynamite and other explosives. As winners of the chemistry prize, the laureates enter an exclusive club … Continue reading →

Two Americans and a German were awarded theNobel Prize in chemistry on Wednesday for pioneering methods that allow researchers to peer into the molecular workings of living things on a scale that could not be achieved with ordinary optical microscopes. Eric Betzig, 54, who works at Howard Hughes Medical Institute's Janelia Research Campus in Ashburn, Va.and William Moerner, 61, of Stanford University, were recognized for breakthroughs that give researchers the ability to switch fluorescent molecules on and off, allowing them to create finely detailed images of biological processes, according to the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, which grants the prizes. German scientist Stefan Hell, 51, director at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Goettingen, Germany,was credited with laying the theoretical groundwork for another technique using two laser beams, one to stimulate fluorescence and another to cancel out all but the tiniest wave lengths of its light. "Their groundbreaking work has brought optical microscopy into the nanodimension," the academy said. The Nobel recipients "allowed us to see the previously unseen lifting the veil on bacteria, viruses, proteins and small molecules," saidTom Barton, president of the American Chemical Society, which has published their work. The relatively new field, known as … Continue reading →

Two Americans and a German won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry today for work that allows optical microscopes to study cells in the tiniest molecular detail, aiding in research of diseases such as Parkinsons and Alzheimers. Eric Betzig, 54, of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Stefan Hell, 51, of the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry and William Moerner, 61, of Stanford University will share the 8 million-krona ($1.1 million) award for their work on super-resolved fluorescence microscopy, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said at a Stockholm news conference today. This prize is about seeing, said Maans Ehrenberg, a professor of molecular biology at Uppsala University and a member of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry. The laureates have expanded what we can with see with light microscopy from bacteria down to really small molecules. Related: Optical microscopes use visible light, which doesnt damage its subject. Electron microscopes, which can examine even smaller objects, require chemical preparation of the subject and cant be used on living organisms. In fluorescent microscopy, proteins and other cell components are marked with luminescent molecules. It allows scientists to see molecules create synapses between nerve cells in the brain, as well as monitor the progress … Continue reading →

The three winners of the 2014 Nobel Prize for chemistry: Americans Eric Betzig and William Moerner, and German scientist Stefan Hell. Bertil Ericson/AP hide caption The three winners of the 2014 Nobel Prize for chemistry: Americans Eric Betzig and William Moerner, and German scientist Stefan Hell. Two Americans and a German will share the Nobel Prize in chemistry for developing a new type of microscopy that allows researchers, for the first time, to see individual molecules inside living cells. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded Americans Eric Betzig and William Moerner and German scientist Stefan Hell the prize for "the development of super-resolved fluorescence microscopy," which "has brought optical microscopy into the nanodimension." Nobelprize.org says: "For a long time optical microscopy was held back by a presumed limitation: that it would never obtain a better resolution than half the wavelength of light. Helped by fluorescent molecules the Nobel Laureates in Chemistry 2014 ingeniously circumvented this limitation. Their ground-breaking work has brought optical microscopy into the nanodimension. "In what has become known as nanoscopy, scientists visualize the pathways of individual molecules inside living cells. They can see how molecules create synapses between nerve cells in the brain; they can … Continue reading →

Eric Betzig, Stefan W. Hell and William E. Moerner share the 2014 chemistry Nobel for the development of super-resolved fluorescence microscopy, which has enabled the study of single molecules in ongoing chemical reactions in living cells. Steve Mirsky reports This years prize is about how the optical microscope became a nanoscope. Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences Permanent Secretary Staffan Normark. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2014 Nobel Prize in Chemistry to Dr. Eric Betzig at Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Ashburn, U.S.A.; Professor Stefan Hell at Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Gttingen, and the German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany; and Professor William Moerner at Stanford University, Stanford, U.S.A., for the development of super-resolved fluorescence microscopy. After the formal announcement, Sven Lidin, chair of the Nobel Chemistry Committee, explained the importance of the new microscopy in chemistry. Because we can see individual macromolecules moving about in a living cell, we can study chemistry at a single-molecule level and in real life. And this is very, very important to chemistry because chemistry has traditionally been about studying a large number of molecules and the effect that they have. Here we can look at a single … Continue reading →