W·E·莫尔纳尔1953—

生平简历

1953年，莫纳生于美国加利福尼亚州的普莱森顿，在德克萨斯州圣安东尼奥长大。

1975年，毕业于圣路易斯华盛顿大学，获得物理学学士学位（最高荣誉），电气工程理学学士学位（最高荣誉），和数学学士学位（summa cum laude）。1978年，获得康奈尔大学物理学硕士学位。1982年，获得康奈尔大学物理学博士学位。

1981年至1995年，在IBM位于加利福尼亚州圣荷西的研究中心担任研究人员和管理人员。1993年至1994年，在瑞士苏黎世联邦理工学院担任访问客座教授。1995年至1998年，在圣地亚哥加利福尼亚大学担任特聘讲席教授（物理化学领域）。1998年至今，在斯坦福大学担任教授。

荣誉

莫纳获得不少荣誉，包括：

1984年：罗杰·I·威尔金斯全美杰出年轻电气工程师奖（Roger I. Wilkinson National Outstanding Young Electrical Engineer Award）

2001年：美国物理学会厄尔勒·K·普利勒奖（Earle K. Plyler Prize）

• 美国物理学会会士（Fellow）
• 美国光学会会士
• 美国科学促进会会士
• 美国科学与艺术院院士
• 2007年：美国国家科学院院士
• 2008年：以色列沃尔夫奖化学奖

2009年：欧文·朗缪尔化学物理学奖（Irving Langmuir Prize in Chemical Physics）

2014年：诺贝尔化学奖。

William Esco Moerner, also known as W. E. Moerner, (born June 24, 1953) is an American physical chemist and chemical physicist who is the Harry S. Mosher Professor of Chemistry, Emeritus, at Stanford University. Moerner is credited with achieving the first optical detection and spectroscopy of a single molecule in condensed phases, along with his postdoc, Lothar Kador. Optical study of single molecules has since become a widely used single-molecule experiment in chemistry, physics and biology. In 2014, Moerner was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, together with Eric Betzig and Stefan W. Hell, "for the development of super-resolved fluorescence microscopy".

Early life and education

Moerner was born in Pleasanton, California on June 24, 1953, the son of Bertha Frances (Robinson) and William Alfred Moerner. He attended Washington University in St. Louis for undergraduate studies as an Alexander S. Langsdorf Engineering Fellow, and obtained three degrees: a B.S. in physics, a B.S. in electrical engineering, and an A.B. in mathematics in 1975.

He then pursued graduate study, partially supported by a National Science Foundation, at Cornell University in the group of Albert J. Sievers III. Here he received an M.S. degree and a Ph.D. degree in physics in 1978 and 1982, respectively. His doctoral thesis was on vibrational relaxation dynamics of an IR-laser-excited molecular impurity mode in alkali halide lattices.

Career

Moerner worked at the IBM Almaden Research Center in San Jose, California, as a research staff member from 1981 to 1988, a manager from 1988 to 1989, and project leader from 1989 to 1995. After an appointment as visiting guest professor of physical chemistry at ETH Zurich (1993–1994), he assumed the distinguished chair in physical chemistry in the department of chemistry and biochemistry at the University of California, San Diego, from 1995 to 1998. In 1997 he was named the Robert Burns Woodward Visiting Professor at Harvard University. His research group moved to Stanford University in 1998, where he became professor of chemistry (1998), Harry S. Mosher Professor (2003), and professor, by courtesy, of applied physics (2005). Moerner was appointed department chair for chemistry from 2011 to 2014. His current areas of research and interest include: single-molecule spectroscopy and super-resolution microscopy, physical chemistry, chemical physics, biophysics, nanoparticle trapping, nanophotonics, photorefractive polymers, and spectral hole-burning. As of May 2014, Moerner was listed as a faculty advisor in 26 theses written by Stanford graduate students.

Recent editorial and advisory boards Moerner has served on include: member of the Board of Scientific Counselors for the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB); Advisory board member for the Institute of Atomic and Molecular Sciences, Academica Sinica, Taiwan; advisory editorial board member for Chemical Physics Letters; advisory board member for the Center for Biomedical Imaging at Stanford; and chair of Stanford University's health and safety committee.

Awards and honors

Moerner is the recipient the National Winner of the Outstanding Young Professional Award for 1984, from the electrical engineering honorary society, Eta Kappa Nu, April 22, 1985; IBM Outstanding Technical Achievement Award for Photon-Gated Spectral Hole-Burning, July 11, 1988; IBM Outstanding Technical Achievement Award for Single-Molecule Detection and Spectroscopy, November 22, 1992; Earle K.

Personal life

Moerner was born on June 24, 1953, at Parks Air Force Base in Pleasanton, California. From birth, his family called him by his initials W. E. as a way to distinguish him from his father and grandfather who are also named William. He grew up in Texas where he attended Thomas Jefferson High School in San Antonio. He participated in many activities during high school: Band, Speech and Debate, Math and Science Contest Team, Bi-Phy-Chem, Masque and Gavel, National Honor Society, Boy Scouts, Amateur Radio Club, Russian Club, Forum Social Club, Toastmasters, "On the Spot" Team and Editor of Each has Spoken. Moerner and his wife, Sharon, have one son, Daniel.