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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. In 2014, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. William E. Moerner is the 130th most popular chemist (up from 316th in 2019), the 671st most popular biography from United States (up from 2,290th in 2019) and the 27th most popular American Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, William E. Moerner ranks 130 out of 602. Before him are Johann Wolfgang Döbereiner, S. P. L. Sørensen, George Andrew Olah, William Lipscomb, Paul Berg, and Christian B. Anfinsen. After him are Jaroslav Heyrovský, Richard R. Ernst, Joseph Proust, John Cornforth, Harold Urey, and Wilfrid Voynich.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1953, William E. Moerner ranks 21. Before him are Kim Basinger, John Malkovich, Isabelle Huppert, Richard Clayderman, Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, and Nigel Mansell. After him are Manuel Pellegrini, Benazir Bhutto, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Teresa Teng, Kathleen Kennedy, and Cyndi Lauper.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, William E. Moerner ranks 671 out of 20,380. Before him are Samuel Pierpont Langley (1834), Tennessee Williams (1911), Angela Davis (1944), Edwin Stanton (1814), Burton Richter (1931), and Harold Lloyd (1893). After him are Kamala Harris (1964), Richard Bach (1936), Albert Fish (1870), James Avery (1945), Ralph Lauren (1939), and Dennis Hopper (1936).

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Among CHEMISTS In United States

Among chemists born in United States, William E. Moerner ranks 27. Before him are Melvin Calvin (1911), Gilbert N. Lewis (1875), Edward W. Morley (1838), William Lipscomb (1919), Paul Berg (1926), and Christian B. Anfinsen (1916). After him are Harold Urey (1893), Robert Burns Woodward (1917), Paul Flory (1910), Roger D. Kornberg (1947), Jerome Karle (1918), and Glenn T. Seaborg (1912).

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