Winfried Denk | |
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| Born | November 12, 1957 |
| Nationality | German |
| Occupation | Physicist |
| Known for | Serial block-face scanning electron microscopy Two-photon excitation microscopy |
| Awards | Michael and Kate Bárány Award (1998) Leibniz Prize (2003) W. Alden Spencer Award (2006) Kavli Prize (2012) Rosenstiel Award (2013) The Brain Prize (2015) |
| Academic background | |
| Academic advisors | Watt W. Webb |
Winfried Denk (born November 12, 1957, in Munich) is a German physicist. He built the first two-photon microscope while he was a graduate student (and briefly a postdoc) in Watt W. Webb's lab at Cornell University, in 1989.