Eric Betzig

Robert Eric Betzig (born January 13, 1960) is an American physicist. He works as a Professor of Physics and Professor of Molecular and Cell biology at the University of California, Berkeley.^[2][3][4] He is also a Senior Fellow at the Janelia Farm Research Campus in Ashburn, Virginia.^[5]

Eric Betzig
Born	Robert Eric Betzig[1] (1960-01-13) January 13, 1960 (age 65) Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S.
Alma mater	California Institute of Technology Cornell University
Known for	Photoactivated localization microscopy Lattice light-sheet microscopy
Awards	Member of the National Academy of Sciences (2015) Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2014)
Scientific career
Fields	Applied physics
Institutions	Howard Hughes Medical Institute University of California, Berkeley
Thesis	Near-field Scanning Optical Microscopy (1988)
Doctoral advisor	Aaron Lewis, Michael Isaacson
Influences	William E. Moerner
Website	hhmi.org/scientists/eric-betzig

Betzig has worked to develop the field of fluorescence microscopy and photoactivated localization microscopy.

He was awarded the 2014 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for "the development of super-resolved fluorescence microscopy"^[6] along with Stefan Hell and fellow Cornell alumnus William E. Moerner.^[7]