The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2014 was awarded jointly to Eric Betzig, Stefan W. Hell and William E. Moerner "for the development of super-resolved fluorescence microscopy".

The official press release is available here.

We are proud that Stefan W. Hell gave the opening lecture of the 7^th European Biophysics Congress held in Genoa, Italy in 2009 and that he was the chairman of the Scientific Committee of the 8^th European Biophysics Congress held in Budapest, Hungary in 2011.

Stefan W. Hell and Alberto Diaspro