'Crazy idea' fetches Stefan Bell the Nobel Prize

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Press Trust of India Bengaluru
Last Updated : Jan 03 2020 | 8:30 PM IST

What German physicist Stefan Hell initially thought was a crazy idea of working on breaking the diffraction barrier in microscopy later fetched him the Nobel Prize in 2014.

The Nobel laureates work is significant as it could prove significant in finding remedies to incurable diseases like cancer and neuro-degenerative diseases.

At the 107th Indian Science Congress here on Friday, the German physicist shared his experience
You can go beyond that. You can have a higher spatial resolution, you can clearly see that here there are filaments of resolve that are not resolved in a normal mode."

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First Published: Jan 03 2020 | 8:30 PM IST

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