Winfried Denk

Winfried Denk (born 12 November 1957 in Munich) is a German physicist, director of the Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology in Martinsried, close to Munich.[1]

Career

Denk is noted for being the first to implement two-photon microscopy while a postdoctoral fellow in Watt W. Webb's lab at Cornell University in 1990. Denk later (1994) recognized that two-photon microscopy has unique properties for imaging live cells deep in highly scattering tissues. His second major invention is a machine that automatically acquires three-dimensional images at a resolution of a few nanometers. This technique, known as Serial Block-Face Scanning Electron Microscopy (SBFSEM or SBEM), has been commercialized by the company Gatan.[2]

Recognition

For his achievements, Winfried Denk was awarded the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize in 2003, the Kavli Prize in 2012 and the Brain Prize in 2015.[3][4] He was appointed as foreign member of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) in 2013.[5]

Other activities

References

  1. ↑ "Department: Electrons - Photons - Neurons". Max Planck Society. Retrieved 2017-07-21.
  2. ↑ "3View System for Image Capture of 3D Ultrastructures | Gatan, Inc". Gatan.com. 2014-12-25. Retrieved 2016-03-01.
  3. ↑ "2012 Kavli Prize Laureates in Neuroscience". The Kavli Foundation. Retrieved 2017-07-21.
  4. ↑ "The Brain Prize - Prize Winners 2015". The Lundbeck Foundation, The Brain Prize. Retrieved 2017-07-21.
  5. ↑ http://www.nasonline.org/member-directory/members/20030489.html
  6. ↑ Board of Trustees Center of Advanced European Studies and Research.
  7. ↑ "Gruppe 2: Astronomi, fysikk og geofysikk" (in Norwegian). Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. Retrieved 26 April 2014.
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