Committee Report : ` ` Guesswork has faded into hard facts and obscurity ... into clarity '' Eric Betzig , Stefan ##ie Hell and Professor Michael Moerner share the Nobel Prize for chemistry . Their work has shifted optical microscopy boundaries into the nanoworld . Hell says he was ` ` totally surprised '' to get the call that told him he had won .
Committee head : `` Guesswork has turned into hard facts and obscurity ... into clarity '' Eric Betzig , Stefan W. Hell and William E. Moerner share the Nobel Prize for chemistry . Their work has shifted optical microscopy boundaries into the nanoworld . Hell says he was `` totally surprised '' to receive the call that told him he 'd won .