This is microscope became a non-scope.

Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences permanent secretary, Stefan Normark.

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to vote the 2014 Nobel Prize in chemistry to Dr. to

the 2014 Nobel Prize in Chemistry to Dr. Eric Betsyg at Howd Youth Medical Institute, Ashbourne, USA,

Professor Stephen Hell at Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry,

Gertingen, and the German Cancer Research Center Heidelberg, Germany,

and Professor William Werner at Stanford University, Stanford USA.

For the development of super-resolved fluorescence microscopy.

After the formal announcement, Sven Leadeen, chair of the Nobel Chemistry Committee,

explained the importance of the new microscopy in chemistry.

Because we can see individual macromolecules moving about in a living cell.

We can study chemistry at a single molecule level and in real life.

this is very, very important to chemistry has traditionally been about studying a large

number of molecules and the effect that they have.

Here we can look at a single molecule as it is active in a chemical system.

That means that rare events can be studied in a very different way.

Reactions can be studied as they happen, not as the end result, but actually as they take place.

It opens entirely new possibilities for chemistry and for

biochemistry. For a more in-depth listen about the 2014 Nobel Prize in

chemistry, look for the Scientific American Science Talk podcast later this morning.

For Scientific American 60 Second Science, I'm Steve Mursky.