THE ROTARIAN STEFAN HELL WINS NOBEL PRIZE IN CHEMISTRY 2014

Rotary has a very good harvest these times. First, Bishop Bergoglio from the Rotary Club of Buenos Aires, Argentina, was elected Pope, as Francisco. Now it’s time to have another Nobel Prize. How nice! Stefan W. Hell, from the Rotary Club of Göttingen, Germany, won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry with Eric Betzig and William E. Moerner from USA. They were awarded the prize jointly "for the development of super-resolved fluorescence microscopy". Stefan Hell was born in 1962, at Arad, Romania, and is working at Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen, and German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany. He’s not the only Rotary Nobel laureate. Other Rotary members who were awarded a Nobel include Thomas Mann (Germany), Arthur Compton (USA), and former Prime Minister of Canada Lester Pearson.

October 2014