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Eric Betzig

1960-United StatesNobel Chemistry 2014

Super-resolved fluorescence microscopy (PALM)

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The discovery, explained

Eric Betzig and PALM: Seeing Inside Cells Beyond the Diffraction Limit

How Eric Betzig and Harald Hess built PALM, single-molecule super-resolution microscopy that beats the Abbe limit. Nobel Chemistry 2014 for JAM, NET, GATE.

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Biography

Eric Betzig (born 1960): The Maverick Who Broke the Limit of Light

Biography of Eric Betzig (born 1960), the American physicist who left science for years, then built PALM microscopy and shared the 2014 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

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