Wednesday 8 October 2014

2014 Oct 8th - Q25

The technical field of which instrument was "selected" for a certain cause by a committee consisting of Sven Lidin, Jan-Erling Bäckvall, Gunnar Karlström, Sara Snogerup Linse, Claes Gustafsson and Astrid Gräslund? The last and only other time this field was "selected" was in 1982.
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=> Microscope (study being microscopy) - this year's Nobel Prize for Chemistry was given to Eric Beitzig, Stefan Hell and William Moerner for "improving the resolution of optical microscopes." The six names mentioned above are the members of the Selecting Committee for the Prize.

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