Stefan Hell

Stefan Hell is a German and Romanian physicist, chemist, and university teacher born in Arad on December 23, 1962. He holds a Doctor of Philosophy and was educated at Heidelberg University. His professional affiliations include the University of Göttingen, Heidelberg University, and the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, where he works in the fields of chemistry, physics, and microscopy. He resides in Göttingen and works in Heidelberg.

Hell has received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, the Körber European Science Prize, the German Future Prize, and the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize. He is a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Lower Saxony, the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, and the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities. He participated in the 2017 German presidential election.

His published works include *Abbildung transparenter Mikrostrukturen im konfokalen Mikroskop*, *On the Brink of Utopia*, *Nanoskopie mit fokussiertem Licht*, *Siam and World War I*, and *Siam and the league of nations*.