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Hefty German scientist Dr Stefan Hell - and American colleagues Eric Betzig and William Moerner - have been awarded the 2014 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their development of super-high-res microscopes: so hi-res, in fact, that they are really nano-scopes. "Due to their achievements the optical microscope can now peer into the …

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  1. Rustident Spaceniak
    Devil

    So, to Hell with the Nobel prize!

    Great job Stefan, Eric, Bill, I'll drink to you later tonight.

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    1. Anonymous Coward
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      Re: So, to Hell with the Nobel prize!

      But be sure to drink a helles Bier

      (nominative determinism kicks in again: "hell" being "light" as an adjective. So an IPA would suit :-) )

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  2. Irongut

    But does he have a volcanic island lair?

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  3. Anonymous Coward
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    No volcanic lair that I know of, though he is conveniently bald.

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  4. DropBear
    Trollface

    Excellent work bypassing that pesky wavelength-of-light limit! Now, erm, about that speed-of-light thing...

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  5. frank ly

    Amazing technique

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:2color-STED-example.png

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  6. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Nice to see some quick recognition

    Sometimes the prize goes to work that has stood the test of time: wait 40 years and see if that really was ground-breaking work or just an interesting blind alley. But in a case like this I guess the assessment is easier: "twitchy nose...whiskers...yep, those magicians have pulled out a rabbit"

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  7. et tu, brute?
    Joke

    Another breakthrough: prcesses?

    Nanoscopes are particularly useful in spying out complex chemicals and prcesses of the sort involved in such...

    Is that another breakthrough, or simply a spelling mistake?

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  8. WraithCadmus
    Joke

    Congratulations

    Though this excerpt from his acceptance speech left me a little worried...

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