Stefan Hell

Stefan Walter Hell
Hell in 2010
Born (1962-12-23) 23 December 1962 (age 61)
Arad, Romania
CitizenshipGermany
Romania
Alma materHeidelberg University
OccupationPhysicist
Known forSTED microscopy
RESOLFT
GSD microscopy
4Pi microscope
Multifocal multiphoton microscopy
Three photon microscopy
AwardsNobel Prize in Chemistry (2014)
Kavli Prize in Nanoscience (2014)
Otto Hahn Prize (2009)
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize (2008)
Scientific career
FieldsPhysics, optics
InstitutionsMax Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences (1997–)
Max Planck Institute for Medical Research (2016–)
German Cancer Research Center (2003–17)
University of Turku (1993–96)
ThesisImaging of transparent microstructures in a confocal microscope (1990)
Doctoral advisorSiegfried Hunklinger [de]
Notable studentsIlaria Testa (postdoc)
Francisco Balzarotti (postdoc)

Stefan Walter Hell (German pronunciation: [ˈʃtɛfan ˈhɛl] : born 23 December 1962) is a Romanian-German physicist and one of the directors of the Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences in Göttingen,[1] and of the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research in Heidelberg,[2] 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.[3]

  1. ^ "Department Hell". Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences. Retrieved 1 January 2024.
  2. ^ "Department of Optical Nanoscopy". Max Planck Institute for Medical Research. Retrieved 1 January 2024.
  3. ^ "Nobelprize.org". Retrieved 11 June 2017.