Awards & Winners

W. E. Moerner

Date of Birth 24-June-1953
Place of Birth California
(United States of America, Contiguous United States)
Nationality United States of America
Also know as William E. Moerner, William Esco Moerner
Profession Professor
William Esco Moerner, is an American physical chemist and chemical physicist with current work in the biophysics of single molecules. He is credited with achieving the first optical detection and spectroscopy of a single molecule in condensed phases, along with his postdoc, Lothar Kador. Optical study of single molecules has subsequently become a widely used single-molecule experiment in chemistry, physics, and biology. Professor Moerner is currently the Harry S. Mosher Professor at Stanford University in the Chemistry Department, with a courtesy appointment in Applied Physics. Current areas of research and interest include: single-molecule spectroscopy and super-resolution imaging, physical chemistry, chemical physics, biophysics, and nanoparticle trapping. Previous areas of interest were: nanophotonics, photorefractive polymers, and spectral hole-burning.

Awards by W. E. Moerner

Check all the awards nominated and won by W. E. Moerner.

2008


Wolf Prize in Chemistry
(For the ingenious creation of a new field of science, single molecule spectroscopy and electrochemistry, with impact at the nanoscopic regime, from the molecular and cellular domain to complex material systems.)