Eric Betzig

Eric Betzig
Eric Betzig
	Betzig in 2015
Born	Robert Eric Betzig; January 13, 1960; Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S.
Education	California Institute of Technology (BS); Cornell University; (MS, PhD);
Known for	Photoactivated localization microscopy; Lattice light-sheet microscopy
Spouses	Na Ji (2nd wife); Ruby Ghosh (1st wife);
Children	Cayden, Ravi, Max, Mia, Zoe
Awards	Member of the National Academy of Sciences (2015); Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2014);
	Scientific career
Fields	Applied physics
Workplaces	Howard Hughes Medical Institute; University of California, Berkeley
Thesis	Near-field Scanning Optical Microscopy (1988)
Doctoral advisor	Michael Isaacson
Website	hhmi.org/scientists/eric-betzig

Robert Eric Betzig (born January 13, 1960) is an American physicist who works as a professor of physics and professor of 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.