Stefan Hell

Stefan Walter Hell (born 23 December 1962) is a German physicist. He is one of the directors of the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen, 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.
He was born into a Banat Swabian family in Arad, Romania, and grew up at his parents' home in nearby Sântana.
In 1981, he began his studies at the Heidelberg University. He received his doctorate in physics in 1990.