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more general categories information about this item 10. Noble Prize 10. Noble Prize Chemistry (180) 11. Award Year 11. Award Year 2010s (106) 2014 (13) 12. Winner Type 12. Winner Type Person (904) 13. Gender 13. Gender Male (853) 14. Birth Year 14. Birth Year 1950s (44) 1953 (4) 15. Place of Birth 15. Place of Birth North America (290) United States (268) Western states (27) California (16) Pleasanton (1) 18. Living Winners 18. Living Winners Alive (292) 19. Given Name 19. Given Name S-Z (143) W (48) 20. Family Name 20. Family Name L-R (258) M (84) 21. Shared Given Name 21. Shared Given Name S-Z (69) W (37) William (20) 23. Religion 23. Religion z-Missing value reason (465) Source data not available (465) 24. Age at Award Time 24. Age at Award Time 60 - 69 (252) 62 (32) 32. Occupations 32. Occupations Life, Physical, and Social Science Occupations (601) Physical Scientists (333) Chemists and Materials Scientists (111) Chemists (111) 34. Citizens 34. Citizens North America (328) United States (307) 37. Worked for College or University 37. Worked for College or University North America (309) United States (303) Western states (85) California (81) Stanford (22) Stanford University (22) 42. Affilliation with College or University 42. Affilliation with College or University Europe (535) Europe, western (390) Switzerland (65) Zurich (49) ETH Zurich (32) Short-term academic staff (14) North America (529) United States (521) Midwestern states (201) Missouri (24) St. Louis (24) Washington University (24) Alumni (4) Northeastern states (374) Massachusetts (226) Cambridge (217) Harvard (159) Short-term academic staff (75) New York (216) Ithaca (58) Cornell University (58) Alumni (18) Western states (262) California (253) Stanford (83) Stanford University (83) Long-term academic staff (46) University of California (159) San Diego (27) University of California, San Diego (27) Long-term academic staff (16) 44. Memberships 44. Memberships A-D (656) A (635) American Academy of Arts and Sciences (531) American Association for the Advancement of Science (95) American Physical Society (113) E-P (571) N (352) National Academy of Sciences (334) 45. Other Awards 45. Other Awards E-F (439) E (135) Earle K. Plyler Prize for Molecular Spectroscopy (4) F (394) Fellow of the American Physical Society (107) Fellow of the Optical Society (14) I-J (268) I (80) Irving Langmuir Award (6) Q-Z (398) W (157) Wolf Prize in Chemistry (10) complete name: William Moerner nobel prize: chemistry award year: 2014 together with: Stefan Hell together with: Eric Betzig prize share: Prize share: 1/3 rational: 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." biography: Biography laureate facts: Facts laureate lecture: Lecture given name: William family name: Moerner occupation: physicist occupation: chemist field of work: physics work location: Stanford University, Stanford, United States of America description: William Moerner is an American physical chemist and chemical physicist with current work in the biophysics and imaging of single molecules. He is credited with achieving the first optical detection and spectroscopy of a single molecule in condensed phases, along with his postdoc, Lothar Kador. Optical study of single molecules has subsequently become a widely used single-molecule experiment in chemistry, physics and biology. In 2014 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. image copyright: © Nobel Media AB. Photo: A. Mahmoud image citation: The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2014. NobelPrize.org. Nobel Media AB 2018. <https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/2014/summary/> date birth: 1953 usual name: William Moerner