Stefan Hell receives Honorary doctorate of ETH Zurich

On 17 November, ETH Zurich celebrated its 163rd ETH Day, its academic holiday, together with guests from research, politics, and industry. Upon the proposal of D-BSSE, Timm Schroeder, Head of the Department, presented the ETH Honorary doctorate to Professor Stefan Hell, Director of two Max Planck Institutes in Germany. He invented the “Stimulated Emission Depletion” (STED-) Microscopy which makes visible tiny objects of the size of molecules.