The award of this year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry to the pioneers of various optical schemes capable of achieving super-resolution and single-molecule detection is recognition of a revolution in optical imaging.
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Orrit, M. Celebrating optical nanoscopy. Nature Photon 8, 887–888 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphoton.2014.288
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