Xiaowei Zhuang, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Xiaowei Zhuang

American biophysicist

Date of Birth: 21-Jan-1972

Place of Birth: Rugao, Jiangsu, China

Profession: physicist, university teacher, biochemist, biophysicist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Xiaowei Zhuang (simplified Chinese: ???; traditional Chinese: ???; pinyin: Zhuang Xiaowei; born January 1972) is a Chinese-American biophysicist, and the David B.
Arnold Jr.
Professor of Science, Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology and Professor of Physics at Harvard University, and an Investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
She is best known for her work in the development of Stochastic Optical Reconstruction Microscopy (STORM) , a super-resolution fluorescence microscopy method, and the discoveries of novel cellular structures using STORM.
She received a 2019 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences for developing super-resolution imaging techniques that get past the diffraction limits of traditional light microscopes, allowing scientists to visualize small structures within living cells.
She was elected a Member of the American Philosophical Society in 2019.