Stefan Hell, Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2014

Stefan Walter Hell (born 23 December 1962) is a Romanian-born German physicist and one of the directors of the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen, Germany. He received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2014 "for the development of super-resolved fluorescence microscopy", together with Eric Betzig and William Moerner.

Awards

• Prize of the International Commission for Optics, 2000
• Helmholtz-Award for metrology, Co-Recipient, 2001
• Berthold Leibinger Innovationspreis, 2002
• Carl-Zeiss Research Award, 2002
• Karl-Heinz-Beckurts-award, 2002
• C. Benz u. G. Daimler-Award of Berlin-Brandenburgisch academy, 2004
• "Innovation Award of the German Federal President", 2006
• Julius Springer Prize for Applied Physics 2007
• Member of the Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen 2007
• Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize, 2008
• Lower Saxony State Prize 2008
• Otto-Hahn-Preis, 2009
• Ernst-Hellmut-Vits-Prize, 2010
• Hansen Family Award, 2011
• Körber European Science Prize, 2011
• The Gothenburg Lise Meitner prize, 2010/11
• Meyenburg Prize 2011
• Science Prize of the Fritz Behrens Foundation 2012
• Doctor Honoris Causa of „Vasile Goldiș” Western University of Arad, 2012
• Romanian Academy, Honorary Member, 2012
• Paul Karrer Gold Medal, University of Zürich, 2013
• Member of Leopoldina, German National Academy, 2013
• Carus Medal of the Leopoldina, 2013
• Kavli Prize, 2014
• Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 2014
• Romanian Royal Family: Knight Commander of the Order of the Crown
• Romania: Grand Cross of the Order of the Star of Romania, 2015
• Glenn T. Seaborg Medal, 2015
• Wilhelm Exner Medal, 2016
• Foreign associate of the National Academy of Sciences, 2016