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Eric Betzig

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Eric Betzig is the 397th most popular chemist (up from 424th in 2019), the 4,163rd most popular biography from United States (up from 4,507th in 2019) and the 78th most popular American Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Eric Betzig ranks 397 out of 602. Before him are Heinrich Rose, Nicolas Lemery, Fausto Elhuyar, Maclyn McCarty, Adolph Frank, and Ferdinand Reich. After him are Jennifer Doudna, Koichi Tanaka, Otto Ambros, Leo Sternbach, Julia Lermontova, and Roy J. Plunkett.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1960, Eric Betzig ranks 138. Before him are Susanne Bier, Jennifer Rush, Michael Stipe, Tony Robbins, Abdellatif Kechiche, and Jane Lynch. After him are Tracy Pollan, Karch Kiraly, Zindzi Mandela, Agim Çeku, Reza Hosseini Nassab, and Erin Brockovich.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Eric Betzig ranks 4,163 out of 20,380. Before him are Jane Alexander (1939), Letitia Christian Tyler (1790), Dan Blocker (1928), Lucretia Mott (1793), Patty Duke (1946), and Julia Louis-Dreyfus (1961). After him are Jeralean Talley (1899), Link Wray (1929), Jerry Siegel (1914), Juliette Lewis (1973), Gloria Grahame (1923), and Henry Armstrong (1912).

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Among CHEMISTS In United States

Among chemists born in United States, Eric Betzig ranks 78. Before him are Alexander Shulgin (1925), Alice Ball (1892), Albert Ghiorso (1915), Edward Calvin Kendall (1972), Isabella Karle (1921), and Maclyn McCarty (1911). After him are Jennifer Doudna (1964), Roy J. Plunkett (1910), George Church (1954), Frank Wigglesworth Clarke (1847), James Crafts (1839), and John Tukey (1915).

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