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On Wed, 8 Oct 2014 09:10:30 -0500, Martin Wessendorf <
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>. --According to him, the rationale for the Prize was that STED and PALM
>can be used to view biochemistry happening in living organisms.
If you read the full scientific background document, it really seems like they were
giving the award for the work done back in the 1990s (e.g. Betzig's near-field
super-resolution imaging and his PALM precursor paper in 1995). Not just his 2006
paper.
http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/2014/advanced-chemistryprize2014.pdf
But it's too bad they had to limit the prize to 3. The simultaneous
PALM/STORM/FPALM papers by Betzig, Zhuang, and Sam Hess really helped ignite
the field. And the list of single-molecule folks is really long (Yanagida, Webb, Zare,
Vale, Orrit, Rigler, Xie, Cremer
). That said, Hell, Betzig, and Moerner are
unquestionably deserving and it's really exciting. (W.E. was my PhD advisor.)
I wrote a blog post about it here:
http://blog.everydayscientist.com/?p=3254-Sam
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