Wednesday, October 7, 2015

Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2015

 http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/2015/

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2015

Tomas Lindahl

Tomas Lindahl

Prize share: 1/3
Paul Modrich

Paul Modrich

Prize share: 1/3
Aziz Sancar

Aziz Sancar

Prize share: 1/3
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2015 was awarded jointly to Tomas Lindahl, Paul Modrich and Aziz Sancar "for mechanistic studies of DNA repair".
 

2014 Chemistry Prize

The principles of STED-microscopy. Ill: J. Jarnestad/The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences

The Optical Microscope Became a Nanoscope

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2014 was awarded jointly to Eric Betzig, Stefan W. Hell and William E. Moerner.
More about the Chemistry Prize
Eric Betzig lecturing

"We knew we had to work fast"

Eric Betzig dedicated his Nobel Lecture about super-resolution optics to "all people taking risks but in the end failed".
Watch the lecture
Stefan W. Hell

"What I discovered is that you can overcome this barrier"

Watch Stefan W. Hell give a short and simple explanation of the fluorescence microscope.
Watch the interview clip
William E. Moerner

"A single molecule is incredibly tiny"

William E. Moerner describes his Nobel Prize awarded work in easy-to-understand terms.
Watch the interview clip

Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2015 
http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/

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