Wednesday 24 June 2015

24-JUNE-1953 :- Birth Of William E. Moerner , Nobel Prize winner.

William Esco Moerner 
(born June 24, 1953) is an American physical chemist and chemical physicist 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 postdoc, Lothar Kador.Optical study of single molecules has subsequently become a widely used single-molecule experiment in chemistry, physics and biology. In 2014 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for the development of super-resolved fluorescence microscopy".

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