Method of the Year 2008: Super-resolution Fluorescence Microscopy
“Normally when you would take a fluorescence image of E[scherichia] coli, you would have about 20 pixels of information, probably even fewer,” Liphardt says. “Now suddenly here was an image containing not 20 pixels, but many thousands.”
On October 8, 2014, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to Eric Betzig, W.E. Moerner and Stefan Hell for “the development of super-resolved fluorescence microscopy,” which brings “optical microscopy into the nanodimension”
Stefan Hell is the barrier of this field:
And this is a video he introduces all the concepts about Super-resolution Fluorescence Microscopy:
Nature’s official video about this method:
