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For Robert Twieg, Ph.D., a professor in ��MŮ��’s Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, the recent news of his longtime collaborator William E. Moerner winning the 2014 Nobel Prize for Chemistry was actually no surprise at all. In fact, he believes that “he’s deserved it for a while.” On Oct. 8, Moerner, a professor at Stanford University, was one of three researchers to win the prize for “the development of super-resolved fluorescence microscopy.” These researchers developed new techniques that give microscopes much sharper vision than was originally thought possible, and...