Stefan Hell

Stefan Walter Hell
Hell in 2010
Born	(1962-12-23) 23 December 1962 (age 62) Arad, Romania
Citizenship	Germany Romania
Alma mater	Heidelberg University
Occupation	Physicist
Known for	STED microscopy RESOLFT GSD microscopy 4Pi microscope Minflux Multifocal multiphoton microscopy Three photon microscopy
Awards	Pour le Mérite (2022) Wilhelm Exner Medal (2016) Onsager Medal (2016) Glenn T. Seaborg Medal (2015) Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2014) Kavli Prize (2014) Paul Karrer Gold Medal (2013) Meyenburg Prize (2011) Körber European Science Prize (2011) Otto Hahn Prize (2009) Lower Saxony State Prize (2008) Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize (2008) German Future Prize (2006) Berthold Leibinger Innovationspreis (2002)
Scientific career
Fields	Physics, optics
Institutions	Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences (1997–) Max Planck Institute for Medical Research (2016–) German Cancer Research Center (2003–17) University of Turku (1993–96)
Thesis	Imaging of transparent microstructures in a confocal microscope (1990)
Doctoral advisor	Siegfried Hunklinger [de]
Notable students	Ilaria Testa (postdoc) Francisco Balzarotti (postdoc)

Stefan Walter Hell (German pronunciation: [ˈʃtɛfan ˈhɛl] ^ⓘ: born 23 December 1962) is a Romanian-German physicist and one of the directors of the Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences in Göttingen,^[1] and of the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research in Heidelberg,^[2] both of which are in Germany. He received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2014 "for the development of super-resolved fluorescence microscopy", together with Eric Betzig and William Moerner.^[3]