Nobel winner Betzig works in Northern Virginia

[Blue_Tires]

ASHBURN

One of three newly announced Nobel Prize winners plies his trade in Northern Virginia.

Eric Betzig, 54, has worked at the Ashburn campus of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute since 2005.

He has spent much of his career working to develop powerful microscopes. On Wednesday, he received the Nobel Prize in chemistry for developing a microscope that allows scientists to view living cells at a molecular level, at resolutions previously thought unattainable.

The institute said Betzig was in Munich when the announcement was made.

In an online video describing his invention, Betzig urged scientists to stray from the beaten path. He said he became so frustrated with the structure of academic science that he left academia altogether and worked for his dad's machine tool company for several years.

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[littlemissmartypants]

1. Fantastic!

Eye love science.
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