10/14/2014
Nobel Prize Awarded to Beiersdorf Cooperation Partner
This year’s announcement of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry was especially interesting for Beiersdorf Research & Development because the highest prize in science honored a cooperation partner of Beiersdorf. Dr. Stefan Hell, Director of the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen, together with Eric Betzig and William Moerner from the U.S., was awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry for his groundbreaking invention of STED Microscopy. With the so-called GSDIM Technology, Dr. Frank Fischer, Head of the Beiersdorf Research Microscopy Lab, uses an advancement of the method of the German Nobel Prize winner. GSDIM stands for “Ground State Depletion Individual Molecule Return Microscopy.” The GSDIM technology is supported by the Federal Ministry for Education as part of the joint research project “GSDIM Widefield Nanoscopy.”