Awarded honorary doctor of the Aix-Marseille University (2016).
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William E. Moerner
William Esco Moerner, also known as W. E. 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 use…
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science · Nobel prize winning American chemical physicist (born 1953) · chemist · physicist · university teacher · also William E. Moerner, William Esco Moerner, WE Moerner, William Moerner, Moerner
Born 24 June 1953 · Q1387059
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2016· 1 entry
2014· 3 entries
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry — for the development of super-resolved fluorescence microscopy.
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Awarded Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2014).
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Was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry
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2013· 1 entry
Awarded Peter Debye Award in Physical Chemistry (2013).
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2009· 1 entry
Awarded Irving Langmuir Award in Chemical Physics (2009).
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2008· 1 entry
Awarded Wolf Prize in Chemistry (2008).
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2003· 1 entry
Awarded Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2003).
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2001· 1 entry
Awarded Earle K. Plyler Prize (2001).
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1998· 1 entry
Where he became professor of chemistry (1998), Harry S
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1997· 1 entry
Was named the Robert Burns Woodward Visiting Professor at Harvard University
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1982· 1 entry
Studied at Cornell University, doctorate (1982).
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1978· 1 entry
Studied at Cornell University, Master of Science (1978).
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1975· 2 entries
Studied at Washington University in St. Louis, Bachelor of Arts (1975).
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Studied at Washington University in St. Louis, Bachelor of Science (1975).
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1953· 3 entries
The son of Bertha Frances (Robinson) and William Alfred Moerner
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At Parks Air Force Base in Pleasanton, California
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Born 1953-06-24.
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