Eric Betzig
Eric Betzig | |
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Betzig in 2015 | |
| Born | Robert Eric Betzig January 13, 1960 Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S. |
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| Known for | Photoactivated localization microscopy Lattice light-sheet microscopy |
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| Children | Cayden, Ravi, Max, Mia, Zoe |
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| Fields | Applied physics |
| Institutions | Howard Hughes Medical Institute University of California, Berkeley |
| Thesis | Near-field Scanning Optical Microscopy (1988) |
| Doctoral advisor | Michael Isaacson |
| Website | hhmi |
Robert Eric Betzig (born January 13, 1960) is an American physicist who works as a professor of physics and professor of molecular and cell biology at the University of California, Berkeley. He is also a senior fellow at the Janelia Farm Research Campus in Ashburn, Virginia.
Betzig has worked to develop the field of fluorescence microscopy and photoactivated localization microscopy. He was awarded the 2014 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for "the development of super-resolved fluorescence microscopy" along with Stefan Hell and fellow Cornell alumnus William E. Moerner.