title: Better imaging through chemistry.
abstract: The 2014 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded jointly to William E. Moerner, Stefan W. Hell, and Eric Betzig "for the development of super-resolved fluorescence microscopy." I discuss the contributions made by this year's awardees and how advances in understanding the behavior of fluorophores and research in light microscopy converged to allow the improved visualization of biological structures.
authors.affiliation: Buchmann Institute for Molecular Life Sciences (BMLS), Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, 60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany; Cluster of Excellence (CEF-MC), Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, 60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany; Biowissenschaften, Fachbereich 15, Institut für Zellbiologie und Neurowissenschaften, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, 60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Electronic address: ernst.stelzer@physikalischebiologie.de.
authors.forename: Ernst H K
authors.initials: EH
authors.lastname: Stelzer
mesh_terms: D002621:Chemistry / Q000266:history*; D005060:Europe; D049673:History, 20th Century; D049674:History, 21st Century; D008027:Light; D008856:Microscopy, Fluorescence / Q000266:history*; D009613:Nobel Prize; D014481:United States