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William E. Moerner
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Nobel prize winning American chemical physicist
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William E. Moerner is an American chemist, physicist, and university teacher born in Pleasanton in 1953. He holds a Doctor of Philosophy and has worked at Stanford University, the University of California, San Diego, and ETH Zurich. His primary field of work is physics, and he resides in San Antonio.
Moerner has received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, the Wolf Prize in Chemistry, and the Irving Langmuir Award in Chemical Physics. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Physical Society, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He was educated at Washington University in St. Louis and Cornell University.
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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
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Pleasanton
- Occupation
- university teacher
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Academic degree
- Doctor of Philosophy
- Field of work
- physics
- Official website
- profiles.stanford.edu/w-moerner
- Image
- WE Moerner.jpg
- Work location
- Stanford
- Residence
- San Antonio
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- date of birth
- 1953-06-24
- Commons category
- William E. Moerner
- name in native language
- William E. Moerner
- affiliation string
- Stanford University
- interested in
- physics
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Encyclopedic overview
William Esco Moerner, also known as W. E. 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.
Bacteria-3D-Double-Helix.This image shows 3D super-resolution imaging of Caulobacter crescentus bacteria cell surfaces (gray) and a labeled protein (CreS, orange-red) obtained using the double-helix single-molecule active control microscopy technique.
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