Nobel Prize in Chemistry Awarded to Americans, German

Three scientists - Americans Eric Betzig and William Moerner and German Stefan Hell - received the 2014 Nobel Prize for chemistry for the development of microscopes so powerful they can be used to see how diseases develop inside the tiniest living cells, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said on Wednesday. "Their ground-breaking work has brought optical microscopy into the nanodimension," the academy said in a statement awarding the 8 million crown ($1.1 million)...

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