American physical chemist and chemical physicist with current work in the biophysics and imaging of single molecules. He is credited with achieving the first optical detection and spectroscopy of a single molecule in condensed phases, along with his postdoc, Lothar Kador. Optical study of single molecules has subsequently become a widely used single-molecule experiment in chemistry, physics and biology. In 2014 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Link to Wikipedia biography Read less
Wed Jun 24 1953 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Pleasanton, United States