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Stefan Hell

Stefan Hell, a Romanian-German physicist born in 1962, is depicted wearing glasses and a suit, with a neutral expression against a dark background.

Romanian-German physicist, born 1962, who in 1994 proposed stimulated-emission-depletion microscopy, a technique that exploits the non-linear response of fluorescent dyes to circumvent the diffraction limit Abbe had derived 121 years earlier. He shared the 2014 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Eric Betzig and William Moerner and directs the Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences in Göttingen.

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