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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 135,108 page views. His biography is available in 52 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 49 in 2019). William E. Moerner is the 341st most popular chemist (up from 352nd in 2019), the 2,911th most popular biography from United States (up from 3,070th in 2019) and the 66th most popular American Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, William E. Moerner ranks 341 out of 509. Before him are Paul Héroult, Eilhard Mitscherlich, Alexander Mikhaylovich Zaytsev, Nicolas Théodore de Saussure, Paul Walden, and Charles Hatchett. After him are George Sarton, Karl Ernst Claus, Charles Friedel, Thomas Cech, Henry Taube, and Jacques Bergier.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1953, William E. Moerner ranks 106. Before him are Ivo Sanader, Ulrich Mühe, James Remar, Jeb Bush, Françoise Bettencourt Meyers, and Michael Bolton. After him are Riccardo Chailly, Robert Davi, Christoph Daum, Tico Torres, Michael J. Sandel, and Massimo Troisi.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, William E. Moerner ranks 2,911 out of 18,182. Before him are Alfred Lunt (1892), John Phillip Law (1937), Aaron Russo (1943), Claude Akins (1926), Sally Ride (1951), and Betty Davis (1945). After him are Jane Alexander (1939), Jackie Jackson (1951), George Mikan (1924), Melissa McBride (1965), John Kennedy Toole (1937), and Robert Garrett (1875).

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Among CHEMISTS In United States

Among chemists born in United States, William E. Moerner ranks 66. Before him are Earl Wilbur Sutherland Jr. (1915), Edwin G. Krebs (1918), Alice Ball (1892), Richard R. Schrock (1945), Frances Arnold (1956), and Thomas Midgley Jr. (1889). After him are Thomas Cech (1947), Roy J. Plunkett (1910), Albert Ghiorso (1915), Roger Y. Tsien (1952), George Washington Carver (1864), and Jennifer Doudna (1964).

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