Stefan W. Hell
Romanian-German physicist (born 1962)
Max Planck Society
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Stefan Walter Hell is a Romanian-German physicist and one of the directors of the Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences in Göttingen, and of the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research in Heidelberg, both of which are in Germany. He received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2014 "for the development of super-resolved fluorescence microscopy", together with Eric Betzig and William Moerner.
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Stefan Walter Hell is a Romanian-German physicist and one of the directors of the Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences in Göttingen, and of the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research in Heidelberg, both of which are in Germany. He received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2014 "for the development of super-resolved fluorescence microscopy", together with Eric Betzig and William Moerner.
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Max Planck Society
Top Publications
- Breaking the diffraction resolution limit by stimulated emission: stimulated-emission-depletion fluorescence microscopy (1994) - 6,248 citations
- Far-Field Optical Nanoscopy (2007) - 3,003 citations
- Fluorescence microscopy with diffraction resolution barrier broken by stimulated emission (2000) - 1,909 citations
- Direct observation of the nanoscale dynamics of membrane lipids in a living cell (2008) - 1,559 citations
- Nanometer resolution imaging and tracking of fluorescent molecules with minimal photon fluxes (2016) - 1,331 citations
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- Full name
- Stefan W. Hell
- Born
- 1962-12-23
- ORCID
- 0000-0002-9638-5077
- OpenAlex ID
- https://openalex.org/A5088219208
Research interests
- Advanced Fluorescence Microscopy Techniques, Laser-Matter Interactions and Applications, Near-Field Optical Microscopy, Force Microscopy Techniques and Applications, Photochromic and Fluorescence Chemistry
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- 6,248OpenAlex citations
- Far-Field Optical Nanoscopy ↗2007 · Science3,003OpenAlex citations
- Fluorescence microscopy with diffraction resolution barrier broken by stimulated emission ↗2000 · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences1,909OpenAlex citations
- 1,559OpenAlex citations
- 1,331OpenAlex citations
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- Far-Field Optical Nanoscopy ↗2007 · Science
- Fluorescence microscopy with diffraction resolution barrier broken by stimulated emission ↗2000 · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
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Awards & honors
- Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2014) — for the development of super-resolved fluorescence microscopy
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