title: The 2014 Nobel Prize in Chemistry: a large-scale prize for achievements on the nanoscale.
abstract: The 2014 Nobel Prize in Chemistry awarded to Eric Betzig, Stefan W. Hell, and William E. Moerner "for the development of superresolved fluorescence microscopy" can be seen as a combined prize for single-molecule detection and superresolution imaging. Neurons, arguably the most morphologically complex cell type, are the subject of choice for this application, now generically called "nanoscopy."
authors.affiliation: University of Bordeaux, Interdisciplinary Institute for Neuroscience, UMR 5297, F-33000 Bordeaux, France; CNRS, Interdisciplinary Institute for Neuroscience, UMR 5297, F-33000 Bordeaux, France; Bordeaux Imaging Center, UMS 3420 CNRS, US4 INSERM, University of Bordeaux, France. Electronic address: daniel.choquet@u-bordeaux.fr.
authors.forename: Daniel
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Choquet
mesh_terms: D002621:Chemistry; D006801:Humans; D008856:Microscopy, Fluorescence / Q000379:methods*; D036103:Nanotechnology; D009613:Nobel Prize