
Stefan Hell
b. 1962
Director at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen, Germany
- Born
- 23 Dec 1962 · Arad
Life timeline
Their life from birth to death. On the timeline, world events of the time are shown faintly.
- 23 Dec 1962BornBorn in Arad
- 2001AwardHelmholtz Prize
- 2002AwardBerthold Leibinger Innovationspreis
- 2002AwardKarl Heinz Beckurts Award
- 2002AwardZeiss Research Award
- 2006AwardGerman Future Prize
- 2008AwardGottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize
- 2008AwardLower Saxony State Prize
- 2009AwardOtto Hahn Prize
- 2010AwardErnst Hellmut Vits Award
- 2011AwardHansen Family Prize
- 2011AwardKörber European Science Prize
- 2011AwardMeyenburg Prize
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Meanwhile in the world
Major world events during their lifetime (1962 – today).
- 19621962 FIFA World Cup
- 1962Cuban Missile Crisis
- 19661966 FIFA World Cup
- 1966 – 1976Cultural Revolution
- 1968Prague Spring
- 1969Apollo 11 Moon landing
- 19721972 Summer Olympics
- 19741974 FIFA World Cup
- 19781978 FIFA World Cup
- 1978 – 1979Iranian Revolution
- 1979 – 1989Soviet–Afghan War
- 1980 – 1988Iran–Iraq War
- 19841984 Summer Olympics
- 1985Schengen Agreement
- 19891989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre
- 1989Fall of the Berlin Wall
- 19901990 FIFA World Cup
- 1991Dissolution of the Soviet Union
- 19941994 FIFA World Cup
- 1994 – 1996First Chechen War
- 19981998 FIFA World Cup
- 2001 – 2021War in Afghanistan
- 2003 – 2011Iraq War
- 20042004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami
- 20062006 FIFA World Cup
- 20082008 Summer Olympics
- 2008Russo-Georgian War
- 20102010 Haiti earthquake
- 2010 – 2012Arab Spring
- 20112011 Norway attacks
- 2011Libyan civil war
- 2011 – 2024Syrian civil war
- 20122012 Summer Olympics
- 20142014 FIFA World Cup
- 2014Russo-Ukrainian war
- 2015Paris Agreement
- 20182018 FIFA World Cup
- 2020COVID-19 pandemic
- 20212020 Summer Olympics
- 2022Russo-Ukrainian war
Biography
Stefan Walter Hell (German pronunciation: [ˈʃtɛfan ˈhɛl] : born 23 December 1962) is a Romanian-German physicist and one of the directors of the Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences in Göttingen, and of the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research in Heidelberg, both of which are in Germany. He received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2014 "for the development of super-resolved fluorescence microscopy", together with Eric Betzig and William Moerner.
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