Eric Betzig

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Eric Betzig (2015)

Robert Eric Betzig (born January 13, 1960 in Ann Arbor ) is an American physicist . In 2014 he received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry together with Stefan W. Hell and William E. Moerner for the development of super-resolution fluorescence microscopy .

Life

Eric Betzig earned a Bachelor of Science in Physics from the California Institute of Technology (June 1983), a Master of Sciences in Applied Physics from Cornell University (January 1985) and a Ph.D. in applied physics from Cornell University (August 1988) with Michael Isaacson . From 1988 to 1994 he worked at Bell Laboratories in the field of optical near-field microscopy and, together with Dieter Pohl, is considered one of the founders of NSOM technology(abbreviated to SNOM in Europe). His research increased the resolution up to one fortieth of the optical resolution limit . From 1994 to 1996 he worked as a researcher and consultant for his company NSOM Enterprises . He then turned his back on optical research for almost ten years and worked in mechanical engineering for the family-owned Ann Arbor Machine Company (1996-2002). He is the owner of New Millennium Research , for which he worked as a researcher and consultant from 2002 to 2005.

Since December 2005, Betzig has headed a research group at the Janelia Farm Research Campus of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute . In 2007, the German company Carl Zeiss and Eric Betzig, together with Harald Hess, received the exclusive rights to market the PALM method in fluorescence spectroscopy , which enables cell structures to be observed from a size of 20 nm.

Awards (selection)

In 1992 Betzig received the William L. McMillan Award and in 1993 the William O. Baker Award for Initiatives in Research . In 2010 he was awarded the Max Delbruck Prize , but he declined to accept the award. In 2014, together with Stefan Hell and William E. Moerner, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry for the development of high-resolution (“superresolution”) fluorescence microscopy . In 2015, Betzig was elected to the National Academy of Sciences .

Fonts

  • with A. Lewis, A. Harootunian, M. Isaacson, E. Kratschmer: Near Field Scanning Optical Microscopy (NSOM), Biophys. J., Volume 49, 1986, p. 269.
  • Non-destructive optical imaging of surfaces with 500 angstrom resolution . Ithaca 1988, bibcode : 1988PhDT ....... 149B (dissertation).
  • with Jay K. Trautman: Near-Field Optics: Microscopy, Spectroscopy, and Surface Modification Beyond the Diffraction Limit, Science, Volume 257, 1992, pp. 189-195, abstract
  • with George H. Patterson, Rachid Sougrat, O. Wolf Lindwasser, Scott Olenych, Juan S. Bonifacino, Michael W. Davidson, Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz, Harald F. Hess: Imaging Intracellular Fluorescent Proteins at Nanometer Resolution. In: Science. Vol. 313, No. 5793, September 2006, pp. 1642-1645

literature

Web links

Commons : Eric Betzig  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Eric Betzig . ( Memento of November 13, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 181 kB) Curriculum Vitae, Janelia Farm Research Campus, 2009
  2. ↑ Biosketches & Abstracts. Herbert D. Doan Nanotechnology Symposium, Monday, September 21, 2009 ( Memento of the original from June 3, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 77 kB) with photo, page 3  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.nano.med.umich.edu
  3. ^ Howard Hughes Medical Institute named Eric Betzig group leader. In: Obesity, Fitness and Wellness Week. December 3, 2005
  4. ↑ High-resolution microscopy  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Press release from the Carl Zeiss Group, June 29, 2009@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.carlzeiss.de  
  5. ↑ Fluorescence microscopy enables record resolution when imaging cell components. In: analytik-news.de. Carl Zeiss Jena , December 6, 2017, accessed July 10, 2017 .
  6. ^ Winners of the McMillan Award. on the website of the Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  7. ^ William O. Baker Award for Initiatives in Research. nasonline.org
  8. ^ Max Delbruck Prize in Biological Physics. ( Memento of November 27, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) on aps.org
personal data
SURNAME Betzig, Eric
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Betzig, Robert Eric (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American physicist
DATE OF BIRTH January 13, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Ann Arbor