William E. Moerner

Quick Facts

Full Name	William E. Moerner
Occupation	Chemist
Date Of Birth	Jun 24, 1953(1953-06-24)
Age	71
Birthplace	Pleasanton
Country	United States
Birth City	California
Horoscope	Gemini

William E. Moerner Biography

William E. Moerner is one of the most popular and richest Chemist who was born on June 24, 1953 in Pleasanton, California, United States. Moerner is born the 24th of June 1953 at Parks Air Force Base in Pleasanton, California. His family from the beginning addressed him with his first initials W. E. as an attempt to differentiate him from his grandfather and father who were also named William. He was raised within Texas where he went to Thomas Jefferson High School in San Antonio. He was involved in a variety of activities in high school, including Band Debate and Speech, 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 the editor of Every Has spoken. Moerner along with his partner, Sharon, have one son, Daniel.

Honorary memberships include Senior Members, IEEE 17 June 1988, as well as Member, National Academy of Sciences, 2007. He is also an Fellow of the Optical Society of America, May 28 1992 The American Physical Society, November 16 1992 and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 2001 and an honorary membership in the American Association for the Advancement of Science 2004.

Moerner has been the recipient of numerous of awards and distinctions. The most notable are: National Winner of the Outstanding Young Professional Award for 1984 from the honorary society for electrical engineering, Eta Kappa Nu, April 22nd 1985. IBM Outstanding Technical Achievement Award for Photon-Gated Spectral Hole-Burning, June 11 1988. IBM Outstanding Technical Achievement Award for Single-Molecule Detection and Spectroscopy October 22nd 1992. Earle K. Plyler Prize for Molecular Spectroscopy, American Physical Society 2001. Wolf Prize in Chemistry (2008) Irving Langmuir Award in Chemical Physics, American Physical Society 2009 Pittsburgh Spectroscopy Award 2012 Peter Debye Award in Physical Chemistry, American Chemical Society 2013, The Engineering Alumni Achievement Award, Washington University, 2013; and the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 2014. Moerner is also the holder of more than 12 patents.

William E. Moerner Net Worth

William E. Moerner is one of the richest Chemist from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, William E. Moerner 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Moerner was born in Pleasanton, California, in 1953 on June 24, his son. He was Bertha Frances (Robinson) and William Alfred Moerner. The boy was in the Boy Scouts of America as part of his organization, the Boy Scouts of America and was an Eagle Scout. He was a student at Washington University in St. Louis for his undergraduate studies as the Alexander S. Langsdorf Engineering Fellow. He graduated with three degrees including A B.S. in Physics with Final Honors as well as an B.S. on electrical engineering, with the Final Honors as well as an A.B. in mathematics summa summa cum laude in 1975. The following year, he completed graduate studies that were partially funded by the National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship in Mathematics Summa Cum Laude in the department of mathematics at Cornell University in the group of Albert J. Sievers III. In Cornell, he earned an M.S. degree as well as the Ph.D. degree in physics in 1978 and 1982 respectively. His dissertation was on the vibrational relaxation dynamics of an IR-laser-excited molecular impureity mode in the alkali halide crystals. In his time at school, Moerner was a straight A student from 1963 until 1982. He also won the Dean’s Award for Unusually Exceptional Academic Achievement and the Ethan A. H. Shepley Award for Outstanding Achievement after his college graduation.

William Esco Moerner (born June 24 1953) is an American physical chemical physicist and chemist who has his current research focused on imaging and biophysics of single molecules. Moerner is believed to have achieved an optical detection as well as spectroscopy an individual molecules in condensed phases as well as his postdoctoral research associate, Lothar Kador. The study of single molecules using optical techniques is now a commonly utilized single-molecule study in physics, chemistry and biology. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in 2014. won Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

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. As of May 16, 2014, there are 386 publications listed in Moerner’s full CV.

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