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Eric Betzig
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American physicist
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Eric Betzig is an American physicist and chemist born in Ann Arbor on January 13, 1960. He holds a Doctor of Philosophy degree and was educated at Cornell University, Cornell University College of Engineering, and the California Institute of Technology. Betzig works in the field of chemistry and is affiliated with the Janelia Research Campus and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences.
Betzig has received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry and the Newcomb Cleveland Prize. His academic work has been influenced by William E. Moerner. He speaks English and is recognized in the Nobel Laureates and Nobel Chemistry collections.
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 2
- Total plays
- 2
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Gene set enrichment analysis: A knowledge-based approach for interpreting genome-wide expression profiles
· 2005 · cited 48,747x
- UCSF Chimera—A visualization system for exploratory research and analysis
· 2004 · cited 44,285x
- SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python
· 2020 · cited 36,382x
- The Genome Analysis Toolkit: A MapReduce framework for analyzing next-generation DNA sequencing data
· 2010 · cited 26,044x
- Array programming with NumPy
· 2020 · cited 23,369x
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Nobel Prize
- The Nobel Prize in Chemistry2014
“for the development of super-resolved fluorescence microscopy”
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Robert
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Ann Arbor
- Occupation
- chemist
- Employer
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Academic degree
- Doctor of Philosophy
- Field of work
- chemistry
- Official website
- janelia.org/people/scientist/eric-betzig
- Image
- Eric Betzig.jpg
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- date of birth
- 1960-01-13
- member of
- National Academy of Sciences
- name in native language
- Eric Betzig
- Commons category
- Eric Betzig
- affiliation
- Janelia Research Campus
- influenced by
- William E. Moerner
- interested in
- chemistry
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Encyclopedic overview
Robert Eric Betzig (born January 13, 1960) is an American physicist who works as a professor of physics and professor of molecular and cell biology at the University of California, Berkeley. He is also a senior fellow at the Janelia Farm Research Campus in Ashburn, Virginia.
Betzig has worked to develop the field of fluorescence microscopy and photoactivated localization microscopy. He was awarded the 2014 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for "the development of super-resolved fluorescence microscopy" along with Stefan Hell and fellow Cornell alumnus William E. Moerner.
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