Stefan Hell
Stefan Hell · Bernd Schuller, Max-Planck-Institut für biophysikalische Chemie, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
Person

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.

Showing 74 years
  1. 23 Dec 1962BornBorn in Arad
  2. 2001AwardHelmholtz Prize
  3. 2002AwardBerthold Leibinger Innovationspreis
  4. 2002AwardKarl Heinz Beckurts Award
  5. 2002AwardZeiss Research Award
  6. 2006AwardGerman Future Prize
  7. 2008AwardGottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize
  8. 2008AwardLower Saxony State Prize
  9. 2009AwardOtto Hahn Prize
  10. 2010AwardErnst Hellmut Vits Award
  11. 2011AwardHansen Family Prize
  12. 2011AwardKörber European Science Prize
  13. 2011AwardMeyenburg Prize

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Meanwhile in the world

Major world events during their lifetime (1962 – today).

  1. 19621962 FIFA World Cup
  2. 1962Cuban Missile Crisis
  3. 19661966 FIFA World Cup
  4. 1966 – 1976Cultural Revolution
  5. 1968Prague Spring
  6. 1969Apollo 11 Moon landing
  7. 19721972 Summer Olympics
  8. 19741974 FIFA World Cup
  9. 19781978 FIFA World Cup
  10. 1978 – 1979Iranian Revolution
  11. 1979 – 1989Soviet–Afghan War
  12. 1980 – 1988Iran–Iraq War
  13. 19841984 Summer Olympics
  14. 1985Schengen Agreement
  15. 19891989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre
  16. 1989Fall of the Berlin Wall
  17. 19901990 FIFA World Cup
  18. 1991Dissolution of the Soviet Union
  19. 19941994 FIFA World Cup
  20. 1994 – 1996First Chechen War
  21. 19981998 FIFA World Cup
  22. 2001 – 2021War in Afghanistan
  23. 2003 – 2011Iraq War
  24. 20042004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami
  25. 20062006 FIFA World Cup
  26. 20082008 Summer Olympics
  27. 2008Russo-Georgian War
  28. 20102010 Haiti earthquake
  29. 2010 – 2012Arab Spring
  30. 20112011 Norway attacks
  31. 2011Libyan civil war
  32. 2011 – 2024Syrian civil war
  33. 20122012 Summer Olympics
  34. 20142014 FIFA World Cup
  35. 2014Russo-Ukrainian war
  36. 2015Paris Agreement
  37. 20182018 FIFA World Cup
  38. 2020COVID-19 pandemic
  39. 20212020 Summer Olympics
  40. 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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