Light Paves the Way to Single-Molecule Detection and Photocontrol, Foundations of Super-Resolution Microscopy
W. E. Moerner
Departments of Chemistry, and by courtesy, of Applied Physics
Stanford University, Stanford, CA USA 94305
The Academia Mexicana de Óptica is honored with the presence of distinguished guests, including Nobel Prize in Chemistry Professor William Moerner.
William Moerner
Professor William Esco Moerner (born June 24, 1953) is an American physical chemist and with current work in the biophysics and imaging of single molecules. He is credited with achieving the first optical detection and spectroscopy of a single molecule in condensed phases, along with his posdoc, Lothar Kador. Optical study of single single molecules has subsequently become a widely used single-molecule experiment in chemistry, physics and biology. In 2014 he awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
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