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I really like my life, and I'm busy enough already,\" the researcher told reporters.\u003cbr/\u003ePaying tribute to his co-recipients, Betzig said the pair were \"extremely well-deserving\", adding that he had \"always figured that I'd probably be left out of that mix\".\u003cbr/\u003eThe 54-year-old works at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute in Ashburn, Virginia. \u003cbr/\u003eHell, 51, is director of the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Goettingen, Germany, and also works at the German Cancer Research Center in Heidelberg. \u003cbr/\u003eMoerner, 61, is a professor at Stanford University in California.\u003cbr/\u003eFor a long time optical microscopes were limited by the wavelength of light and other factors, so scientists believed they could never yield a resolution better than 0.2 micrometers.\u003cbr/\u003eBut the three scientists were able to break that limit by using molecules that glow on command. \u003cbr/\u003eThe advance took optical microscopy into a new dimension that made it possible to study the interplay between molecules\u003cbr/\u003einside cells, including the aggregation of disease-related proteins, the academy said.\u003cbr/\u003eThe technology offers advantages over an electron microscope, which offers slightly better resolution but can't be used to examine cells that are alive.\u003cbr/\u003e\"You really need to be able to look at living cells because life is animate - it's what defines life,\" Betzig said.\u003cbr/\u003eHell used these methods to study nerve cells to get a better understanding of brain synapses; Moerner studied proteins related to Huntington's disease; and Betzig tracked cell division inside embryos, the academy said.\u003cbr/\u003eNobel committee member Claes Gustafsson called the laureates' work \"a revolution, because as recently as 15 years ago, it was believed to be theoretically impossible to break this barrier.\"\u003cbr/\u003eThis year's Nobel awards began Monday with US-British scientist John O'Keefe splitting the medicine award with Norwegian couple May-Britt Moser and Edvard Moser for brain cell research that could pave the way for a better understanding of diseases like Alzheimer's.\u003cbr/\u003eOn Tuesday, Isamu Akasaki and Hiroshi Amano of Japan and US scientist Shuji Nakamura won physics award for the invention of blue light-emitting diodes - a breakthrough that spurred the development of LED technology, which can be used to light up homes, offices and the screens of mobile phones, computers and Tvs.\u003cbr/\u003eThe Nobel Prize in literature will be announced Thursday, followed by the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday and the economics prize on Monday.\u003cbr/\u003eThe prizes are always handed out on December 10, the date that prize founder Alfred Nobel died in 1896.\u003cbr/\u003eMunich, Germany - 8 October 2014\u003cbr/\u003e1. Nobel Prize winner Eric Betzig entering lecture hall to applause from students and wellwishers\u003cbr/\u003e2. People applauding\u003cbr/\u003e3. UPSOUND (English) Eric Betzig, US researcher, one of three winners of the 2014 Nobel Prize in Chemistry\u003cbr/\u003e\"I still don't know how to process this damn thing, but... (audience laughs)\"\u003cbr/\u003e4. Betzig speaking to audience\u003cbr/\u003e5. SOUNDBITE (English) Eric Betzig, US researcher, one of three winners of the 2014 Nobel Prize in Chemistry\u003cbr/\u003e\"When I saw the number, I first started to shake a little bit, but probably after about 30 seconds, I was like 'OK, well, let's bow to the inevitable.' And so after that, from then to now, it's kind of like 50 percent happiness and 50 percent fear. Because I don't want my life to change. I really like my life, and I'm busy enough already.\" \u003cbr/\u003e6. Betzig surrounded by media\u003cbr/\u003e7. SOUNDBITE (English) Eric Betzig, US researcher, one of three winners of the 2014 Nobel Prize in Chemistry\u003cbr/\u003e\"I think the two other guys, W.E.M. (William E. Moerner) and Stefan (Hell) are extremely well-deserving. I always figured that I'd probably be left out of that mix, honestly. So I'm happy and, I guess, to the extent that I wanted the prize, relieved to be included with them. But I think the committee did a wonderful job of selecting who they did in this field.\"\u003cbr/\u003e8. Betzig talking to journalists\u003cbr/\u003e9. SOUNDBITE (English) US researcher, one of three winners of the 2014 Nobel Prize in Chemistry\u003cbr/\u003e\"This is really about the ability to take optical microscopy that had sort of a limit to how small you could see, and pushing it closer to what an electron microscope could see. That alone isn't very interesting, because electron microscopes can already see it. But what an optical microscope can do is A: it can look at specific proteins inside of the cell, which electron microscopes can't, and B: it can look at living cells. And you really need to be able to look at living cells because life is animate - it's what defines life. And so the only way you're going to understand how inanimate molecules come together to create animate life is by studying them in high resolution in both space and time. And so these super-resolution techniques give us the ability in order to do that.\"\u003cbr/\u003e10. Betzig's hand with champagne flute (glass)\u003cbr/\u003e11. SOUNDBITE (English) US researcher, one of three winners of the 2014 Nobel Prize in Chemistry\u003cbr/\u003e\"Well, I think this will... this is already and is increasingly becoming a very good tool to help connect the fields of molecular biology and cellular biology, so that we can really understand how the genetic code and the proteins that are expressed by that code then create the sort of behaviours that happen - things like cell division or metabolism or, or, or... you know death of cells and so forth, how all that happens. And so we can see that now in finer detail than we could before.\"\u003cbr/\u003e12. 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