NLS Nobel Prize Laureate

Stefan W. Hell, PhD, likes to get down to the fundamentals. As an undergraduate, he disliked hearing professors say, “If you do the maths, you’ll know why this is so.” He was convinced everything could be reduced to the simplest principles and spent hours, as he put it in his autobiography, “trying to distill concepts and phenomena down to their essence.”

Professor John O'Keefe discovered the brain region responsible for mapping and navigating the environment. And his explorations continue…

Despite earning multiple degrees in physics and all his years doing research, Nobel Prize winner Dr. Eric Betzig sees himself foremost as a tool builder.

Randy Schekman’s discoveries using yeast to determine the movement of vesicles brought his Nobel Prize dreams to life.

The curiosity to understand the surrounding world has led Martin Karplus to a lifelong love for science, food and photography. 

Michael Levitt is a pioneer in computational biology who is as passionate as ever about science and life.