Eric Betzig, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Eric Betzig

American physicist

Date of Birth: 13-Jan-1960

Place of Birth: Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States

Profession: physicist, chemist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Robert Eric Betzig (born January 13, 1960) is an American physicist who works as a Professor of Physics and Professor Molecular and Cell biology at the University of California, Berkeley.
He is also a Senior Fellow at the Janelia Farm Research Campus in Ashburn, Virginia.Betzig has worked to develop the field of fluorescence microscopy and photoactivated localization microscopy.
He was awarded the 2014 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for "the development of super-resolved fluorescence microscopy" along with Stefan Hell and fellow Cornell alumnus William E.
Moerner.