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Also known as Betzig E, Robert Eric Betzig, R. Eric Betzig

American physicist

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Eric Betzig is an American physicist who has made significant contributions to the field of microscopy and scientific imaging. His work matters because it has advanced our ability to see and study biological structures at extremely small scales, which is fundamental to understanding how living organisms work at the molecular level.

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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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