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Romanian-German physicist (born 1962)

Stefan Walter Hell (German pronunciation:[ˈʃtɛfanˈhɛl]^ⓘ: born 23 December 1962) is a Romanian-German physicist and one of the directors of the Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences in Göttingen,^[1] and of the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research in Heidelberg,^[2] both of which are in Germany.

He received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2014 "for the development of super-resolved fluorescence microscopy", together with Eric Betzig and William Moerner.^[3]

Life

Born 1962 into a Roman CatholicBanat Swabian family in Arad, Romania, he grew up at his parents' home in nearby Sântana.^[4][5] Hell attended primary school there between 1969 and 1977.^[6] Subsequently, he attended one year of secondary education at the Nikolaus Lenau High School in Timișoara before leaving with his parents to West Germany in 1978.^[7] His father was an engi