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            3 Win Nobel for Chemistry With Nanoscale Microscopy Work

   by VOA News

   American scientists Eric Betzig and William Moerner and Germany's
   Stefan Hell received the 2014 Nobel Prize for chemistry for the
   development of super-resolved fluorescence microscopy, the Royal
   Swedish Academy of Sciences said on Wednesday.

   "Their ground-breaking work has brought optical microscopy into the
   nanodimension," the academy said in a statement awarding the 8 million
   crown ($1.1 million) prize.

   Chemistry was the third of this year's Nobel prizes.

   Earlier this week, American-British scientist John O'Keefe and
   Norwegians May-Britt Moser and Edvard Moser won the Nobel Prize in
   medicine on Monday for their work in discovering the brain's inner
   navigation system.

   And on Tuesday, Japanese scientists Isamu Akasaki and Hiroshi Amano and
   American scientist Shuji Nakamura were honored for their work in the
   1990s in creating bright, energy-efficient white light from
   semiconductors, succeeding where scores of other scientists had failed.

   The prize for literature will be awarded on Thursday, and the Nobel
   Peace Prize will be awarded on Friday.

   The prize is named after dynamite inventor Alfred Nobel and has been
   awarded since 1901 for achievements in science, literature and peace in
   accordance with his will.

   Some material for this report came from Reuters.
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