The 2014 Nobel Prize in Chemistry: a large-scale prize for achievements on the nanoscale

Daniel Choquet

doi:10.1016/j.neuron.2014.12.002

The 2014 Nobel Prize in Chemistry: a large-scale prize for achievements on the nanoscale

Neuron. 2014 Dec 17;84(6):1116-9. doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2014.12.002.

Author

Daniel Choquet¹

Affiliation

¹ University of Bordeaux, Interdisciplinary Institute for Neuroscience, UMR 5297, F-33000 Bordeaux, France; CNRS, Interdisciplinary Institute for Neuroscience, UMR 5297, F-33000 Bordeaux, France; Bordeaux Imaging Center, UMS 3420 CNRS, US4 INSERM, University of Bordeaux, France. Electronic address: daniel.choquet@u-bordeaux.fr.

PMID: 25521373
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2014.12.002

Abstract

The 2014 Nobel Prize in Chemistry awarded to Eric Betzig, Stefan W. Hell, and William E. Moerner "for the development of superresolved fluorescence microscopy" can be seen as a combined prize for single-molecule detection and superresolution imaging. Neurons, arguably the most morphologically complex cell type, are the subject of choice for this application, now generically called "nanoscopy."

MeSH terms

Chemistry*
Humans
Microscopy, Fluorescence / methods*
Nanotechnology*
Nobel Prize*