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William E. Moerner

1953 - Today

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William Esco Moerner, also known as W. E. Moerner, (born June 24, 1953) is an American physical chemist and chemical physicist with current work in the biophysics and imaging 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of William E. Moerner has received more than 144,368 page views. His biography is available in 54 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 52 in 2019). William E. Moerner is the 316th most popular chemist (up from 341st in 2019), the 2,290th most popular biography from United States (up from 2,904th in 2019) and the 66th most popular American Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, William E. Moerner ranks 316 out of 602. Before him are Alexander Shulgin, J. D. Bernal, Alice Ball, William Prout, Torbern Bergman, and Frederick Abel. After him are Edward Frankland, M. Stanley Whittingham, Clemens Winkler, Louis E. Brus, Charles Friedel, and Richard J. Roberts.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1953, William E. Moerner ranks 95. Before him are András Schiff, Guy Verhofstadt, Kate Capshaw, Sergei Ivanov, Hussein Arnous, and Ivo Sanader. After him are Manfred Kaltz, Jerome Powell, Teresa Orlowski, Danny Elfman, Ulrich Mühe, and Jeb Bush.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, William E. Moerner ranks 2,290 out of 20,380. Before him are Agnes Smedley (1892), Lorraine Bracco (1954), Pat Hingle (1924), Charles Dow (1851), Matt Dillon (1964), and Frederik Pohl (1919). After him are Richard Axel (1946), Paul P. Harris (1868), Stella Adler (1901), Paul Sorvino (1939), Lee Grant (1927), and Diana Nyad (1949).

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Among CHEMISTS In United States

Among chemists born in United States, William E. Moerner ranks 66. Before him are Thomas Midgley Jr. (1889), Richard R. Schrock (1945), Earl Wilbur Sutherland Jr. (1915), Thomas Cech (1947), Alexander Shulgin (1925), and Alice Ball (1892). After him are Louis E. Brus (1943), Frances Arnold (1956), Roger Y. Tsien (1952), Roderick MacKinnon (1956), Edward Calvin Kendall (1972), and Allen J. Bard (1933).

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