Eric Betzig, Stefan Hell, William Moerner Won 2014 Nobel Prize In Chemistry
American scientists Eric Betzig and William Moerner and Germany’s Stefan Hell were announced as the 3 winners of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry on 8 October. The trio of Betzig, Moerner and Hell were conferred for their contribution in the area of super-resolved fluorescence microscopy which helped in bringing optical microscopy into the nano-dimension. This helped to study molecular processes in real time. Betzig is associated with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (U.S.) while Moerner is at Stanford University. Hell is Director of the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Germany.
Anoop Jain Won Waislitz Global Citizen Award 2014
Anoop Jain has won the 2014 Waislitz Global Citizen Award for his work in building sanitation facilities in rural India. Anoop Jain received the award and US$100,000 cash prize for his exemplified values of a global citizen through his work in setting up Humanure Power (HP) in Bihar in 2011 to build community sanitation facilities.
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