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Pitt logo Special Seminar - Pitt and CMU professors to deliver a four-part talk on the 2014 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

"Super-Resolution Microscopy is Dynamite: Its Beginning, Present, and Future"

Pitt faculty members Simon Watkins, Meir Aridor, and Adam Kwiatkowski; and Carnegie Mellon University faculty member Manoj Puthenveedu will discuss the 2014 Nobel Prize in Chemistry at 4 p.m. on Thursday, November 20, in S100 Biomedical Science Tower.

Their four-part talk, "Super-Resolution Microscopy is Dynamite: Its Beginning, Present, and Future," will illuminate the role and significance of the prize-winning work of Nobel Laureates Eric Betzig, Stefan W. Hell, and William E. Moerner and the development of super-resolution microscopy.