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Eric Betzig
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American physicist
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Eric Betzig is an American physicist and chemist born in Ann Arbor in 1960. He holds a Doctor of Philosophy and has been educated at the California Institute of Technology and Cornell University College of Engineering. Betzig works at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and is affiliated with the Janelia Research Campus. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and speaks English.
His work is situated in the field of chemistry, and he was influenced by William E. Moerner. Betzig received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry and the Newcomb Cleveland Prize. He is recognized in the Nobel Laureates collection and the Nobel Chemistry collection.
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Nobel Prize
- The Nobel Prize in Chemistry2014
“for the development of super-resolved fluorescence microscopy”
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Robert
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Ann Arbor
- Occupation
- chemist
- Employer
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Academic degree
- Doctor of Philosophy
- Field of work
- chemistry
- Official website
- janelia.org/people/scientist/eric-betzig
- Image
- Eric Betzig.jpg
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- date of birth
- 1960-01-13
- member of
- National Academy of Sciences
- name in native language
- Eric Betzig
- Commons category
- Eric Betzig
- affiliation
- Janelia Research Campus
- influenced by
- William E. Moerner
- interested in
- chemistry
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Encyclopedic overview
Robert Eric Betzig (born January 13, 1960) is an American physicist who works as a professor of physics and professor of molecular and cell biology at the University of California, Berkeley. He is also a senior fellow at the Janelia Farm Research Campus in Ashburn, Virginia.
Betzig has worked to develop the field of fluorescence microscopy and photoactivated localization microscopy. He was awarded the 2014 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for "the development of super-resolved fluorescence microscopy" along with Stefan Hell and fellow Cornell alumnus William E. Moerner.
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