2014 Nobel Prize Winners and the IEEE

The IEEE-UFFC Society is proud to announce that all of the 2014 Nobel Prize Winners in Chemistry and Physics are either members of the IEEE or have been featured in articles published in the IEEE Spectrum.

The 2014 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to IEEE Senior Member William E. Moerner, Eric Betzig and Stefan W. Hell for super-resolved fluorescence microscopy. One of Moerner's first professional meetings was the 1974 IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium in Milwaukee, at which Moerner, who at that time was a student in UFFC AdCom member Jim Miller's Laboratory for Ultrasonics at Washington University in St. Louis, gave an oral presentation and was a co-author on a two additional contributed talks. Betzig and Hell were featured in an article published in the IEEE Spectrum.

The 2014 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to Isamu Akasaki, Hiroshi Amano and Shuji Nakamura for the development of the blue LED. All three are members of the IEEE. Akasaki was awarded the IEEE Edison Medal in 2011. Nakamura was featured in an IEEE Spectrum article.

Congratulations to all of the 2014 Nobel Prize Winners!!!