Wednesday, 8 October 2014 - 3:40pm IST | Agency: DNA Webdesk DNA Web Team Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Google+ Share on Reddit The Nobel Prize for Chemistry was awarded to Americans Eric Betzig, William E Moerner and German Stefan W Hell for their work in bringing optical microscopy into the nanodimension. A press release by the Nobel Prize Committee says, "For a long time optical microscopy was held back by a presumed limitation: that it would never obtain a better resolution than half the wavelength of light. Helped by fluorescent molecules the Nobel Laureates in Chemistry 2014 ingeniously circumvented this limitation. Their ground-breaking work has...
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