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 . Two Americans and a German won the Nobel Prize in chemistry this year for their work on optical microscopy that has opened up our understanding of molecules by allowing us to see how they work close up . 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 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 .