Stefan Hell quotes

Stefan Hell is a Romanian-born physicist renowned for his pioneering work in the field of microscopy. His research led to the development of super-resolved fluorescence microscopy, breaking the diffraction limit of light. He has received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his groundbreaking contributions. Here are 5 of his quotes:

According to the belief, molecules closer together than 200 nanometers could not be told apart with focused light. This is because, in a packed molecular crowd, the molecules shout out their fluorescence simultaneously, causing their signal, their voices, to be confused. (Stefan Hell)
It's childish, but it still gives me great pleasure to see high-res pictures everyone told me would be impossible. View quote
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Calling on each molecule one by one? No way. I just told all of them to be quiet - except for a selected few. View quote
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I got bored with the topic; I felt this was 19th century physics. I was wondering if there was still something profound that could be made with light microscopy. So I saw that the diffraction barrier was the only important problem that had been left over. View quote
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I love to be a scientist. I've always enjoyed being curious. View quote
Stefan Hell

Stefan Hell

Stefan Hell - Image
Photo: Bernd Schuller, Max-Planck-Institut für biophysikalische Chemie, CC BY-SA 3.0
Occupation: Romanian Physicist
Born: December 23, 1962
Quotes count: 5