2014 Event Scientists Stefan Hell of Germany and Eric Betzig and William Moerner of the U.S. share the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing 'super-resolved fluorescence microscopy'; the technology can be used to observe molecular activity in living cells 1909 Birthday Edward L Tatum, U.S., molecular geneticist, Nobel 1958 1904 Birthday Gerhard Herzberg, Can, physicist, molecular structure-Nobel 1971 1844 Death John Dalton, English physicist/chemist (molecular theorist), dies at 77
