Eric Betzig is working at the Howard Hughes Medfical Institute in Ashburn, Virginia. Hell is director at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Goettingen, Germany and E. Moerner
is a professor at Stanford University in California. "Due to their
achievements the optical microscope can now peer into the nanoworld,"
the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said in awarding the 8 million
crown ($1.1 million) prize.
Last year’s Noble Chemistry award went to a group of three scientists of
United States Martin Karplus , Michael Levitt and Arieh Warshel for
devising computer simulations that are used to understand and predict
chemical processes (Check details here). Chemistry was the third of this year's Nobel prizes. The Nobel prizes in Medicine and Physics 2014
were already announced. The Nobel Prizes 2014 for literature and
economic sciences will be announced later this week, as will the Nobel
Peace Prize.