The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2014 has been awarded jointly to Eric Betzig, USA, Stefan W. Hell, Germany, and William E. Moerner, USA, “for the development of super-resolved fluorescence microscopy”.

The video shows a lecture by Stephan Hell on Super-Resolution: Overview and Stimulated Emission Depletion  (STED) Microscopy.

More information:

• Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2014,
  ChemViews Mag. 2014.

Also of interest:

• Nobel Prize in Physics 2014
• An article by Stefan W. Hell about his Nobel awarded work (in German) published in Physik Journal
• Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2014
• Voting: Who’s Next? Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2014 – Final Voting Results