William E. Moerner, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

William E. Moerner

Nobel prize winning American chemical physicist

Date of Birth: 24-Jun-1953

Place of Birth: Pleasanton, California, United States

Profession: physicist, chemist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

William Esco 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.