The revolution in optical microscopy – Nobel Laureate Stefan Hell at TU Dresden

Stefan Hell, 2014 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, will be giving a public talk in German on 22 June, 7 pm in the Audimax (central lecture hall) of the TU Dresden titled: “Optical microscopy: the resolution revolution”. Professor Hell is the director of the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen and head of the Division of Optical Nanoscopy at the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) in Heidelberg. In his lecture, he will tell us how endurance, persistence and valour led to him crossing the boundaries of optical microscopy. The physicist developed the “Stimulated Emission Depletion” (STED-) microscopy which uses fluorescent dyes to make nanoscale biological structures visible by chemical processes. This invention led to a breakthrough in the optical microscopy resolution limit of 0,2 micrometers which, since the end of the 19th century was an irrefutable law, and therefore laid the foundation for optical nanoscopy.

Please find further information and free registration at https://tu-dresden.de/mn/nobel