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  • The 2014 Nobel Prize in Chemistry is awarded to Eric Betzig, Stefan Hell and William Moerner.
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  • @periodicvideos
    @periodicvideos  5 років тому +7

    Catch our list of Nobel Prize videos from over the years: @t

  • @unvergebeneid
    @unvergebeneid 9 років тому +44

    I couldn't concentrate on the video. I was staring at the void around Prof. Poliakoff's head.

  • @theb3rn7
    @theb3rn7 9 років тому +41

    They literally just revolutionized microscopy. This is amazing.

    • @RKBock
      @RKBock 9 років тому

      well, all the inventions that changed weapons, from a stick in the stone age to an atom bomb now "just revolutionized hunting"

    • @VicariousReality7
      @VicariousReality7 9 років тому +6

      *****
      What are you hunting with fission bombs?

  • @Vicvines
    @Vicvines 9 років тому +22

    The Nobel prize is like the Oscars of science. Except the winners are actually deserving of the prize.

  • @POKker1996
    @POKker1996 9 років тому +36

    Wow this such a simple principle compared to an electron microscope. Biology is going to make a HUGE jump forward with this discovery, those three really deserve their Nobel Prize

    • @emperorpalpatine9841
      @emperorpalpatine9841 9 років тому +7

      Maybe we'll see DNA in process or maybe even molecules or atoms. Is sub-atomic and plank length too much to ask?

    • @qatharsys
      @qatharsys 9 років тому +10

      Emperor Palpatine
      Sub-atomic is not possible with these methods as they only work with fluorescence.
      Single molecules is possible as you can get resolutions of ~10 nm with this.

    • @danheidel
      @danheidel 9 років тому +2

      Emperor Palpatine No, these techniques simply localize a fluorescent emitter in space. You don't actually image anything directly. The resolution is further limited by the size of the fluorophore. The GFP protein is about 4 x 2.5 nm in size, which puts a lower limit to the resolution of what you can localize with it. The laser-based technique is higher resolution since it can use regular non-biological fluorescent labels on the order of 1nm or so in size.

    • @emperorpalpatine9841
      @emperorpalpatine9841 9 років тому

      Qatharsys I mean with microscopes in general.

  • @SuperToFue
    @SuperToFue 9 років тому +5

    Has professor Martyn Poliakoff won a Nobel Prize yet? He and Brady should win one for their work on promoting chemistry to the masses.

    • @periodicvideos
      @periodicvideos  9 років тому +3

      SuperToFue I don't think that is a category, but thanks! ;) we did get to hold a medal... Periodicvideos gets a Nobel Prize

    • @SuperToFue
      @SuperToFue 9 років тому +3

      That's really cool :) Thanks for sharing!

  • @ArnimSommer
    @ArnimSommer 9 років тому +60

    What happened to the professors hair?
    Was he on vacation and mistaken for a sheep?

    • @jazzpi
      @jazzpi 9 років тому +22

      No, they had to inspect all of it under an electron microscope. Watch the video before you post a comment!

    • @dyingangelo
      @dyingangelo 9 років тому +1

      xXjazzpiXx what? that videos was like 5months ago.......

    • @blockchaaain
      @blockchaaain 9 років тому +4

      NeATaNDtURdy More like four years.

    • @ElectricityTaster
      @ElectricityTaster 9 років тому +10

      The real question here is what happened to _your_ hair, baldie.

    • @jazzpi
      @jazzpi 9 років тому

      chemistrycounts You don't get jokes, do you?

  • @TipoQueTocaelPiano
    @TipoQueTocaelPiano 9 років тому

    Sorry for the off-topic, but finding your videos is the best thing happened to me in who knows how long. You explain yourself really eloquently and you radiate honesty and modesty.
    Thank you.

  • @aSadFcuk
    @aSadFcuk 9 років тому +19

    and here I was thinking you were going to talk about the blue LED, I agree with your statement that they got it the wrong way around.

    • @RBuckminsterFuller
      @RBuckminsterFuller 9 років тому +1

      The laureates within the different scientific branches aren't chosen by the same committee.

    • @edwee256
      @edwee256 9 років тому +3

      If you would like a video on that, go to Sixty Symbols:
      Blue LEDs and Nobel Prize - Sixty Symbols

  • @centervipvalinhos9574
    @centervipvalinhos9574 9 років тому +1

    Professor Poliakoff has the capacity of explaining things so well it sounds not just simple but almost obvious.

  • @NRBW
    @NRBW 9 років тому +1

    Its like the 2-photon effect (2 photon microscopy using a Laser scanning microsocpe) .using an IR laser that will only let fluorescence happen at the focal point as if you were using a higher energy single photon), then you can mark regions in a cell with proteins and then you can image those regions without getting interference from other regions in the cell.
    you can also use several markers to get more information

  • @Mr12poopoo12
    @Mr12poopoo12 9 років тому +1

    Give the Professor a Nobel prize for being my favourite person on the planet, legend!

  • @cheddle88
    @cheddle88 9 років тому

    similar solution is applicable to increase digital storage space on CD's - overlapping lasers on separate wavelengths to R/W data at a size smaller than the wavelength of the laser being used to do so. so clever to see that this same method of "shrinking" the practical size of a wavelength of light is applicable in such a wildly different situation!

  • @orsalinoneto
    @orsalinoneto 9 років тому

    Nice new hair cut! I will have a hair cut like this professor!!
    BRASIL LOVES YOU PERIODIC TABLE

  • @okcringelord
    @okcringelord 9 років тому +2

    I feel like I've heard of this technology before today, but having to do with compact discs. Some scientists discovered that if you use two lasers in a specific way, you can make CD's that hold a great deal more information that the common method. I wonder if these things are connected?

  • @maxbelli
    @maxbelli 9 років тому +1

    Clear and very useful, i'll show this video to my students.

  • @zezo69
    @zezo69 9 років тому +2

    This guy is so smart and yet he's humble enough to say that he doens't fully understand some things. Thanks them parentes for making him, cause he's awesome.

  • @apburner1
    @apburner1 9 років тому +17

    Considering Gore and Obama have been awarded prizes I don't put any stock in them nor do I pay attention to them anymore. The Nobel Committee has zero credibility.

    • @StormwaterIsOneWord
      @StormwaterIsOneWord 9 років тому +11

      It's not as if they weren't worthy of a Nobel. But nonetheless your point still stands. Giving Gore and Obama a Peace Prize was ridiculous considering the humanitarian work that many others do.

    • @danheidel
      @danheidel 9 років тому +19

      The different awards are managed by different committees. The scientific awards are usually not too terrible. (though they have made some questionable calls) The Nobel Peace prize is kind of a joke these days, sadly.

    • @unvergebeneid
      @unvergebeneid 9 років тому +13

      I know Americans have kind of an undeservedly bad rep when it comes to geography but you mixing up Norway and Sweden .... not helping.

    • @riskinhos
      @riskinhos 9 років тому

      considering they didn't gave prof martyn poliakof the nobel prize of chemistry, they have zero credibility.

  • @thrillscience
    @thrillscience 9 років тому +1

    I'm sorry you didn't win Professor. I was rooting for you.

  • @chilledoutpaul
    @chilledoutpaul 9 років тому +9

    Hi Martin This may be an odd sort of message but Your such a nice guy and so knowledgeable ETC. I see it is a great honour and privilege being subscribed to you.
    When I was about 8 my friend had a chemistry set with about 12 chemicals, a couple of test tubes a rack and the obligatory litmus strips, well nothing really seemed to work or do much so I decided to go down the electronic route so I ended up being an electromechanical engineer and the nearest I get to chemicals now is isopropnal lol

  • @Harm10412
    @Harm10412 9 років тому

    You might want to redo that explanation of STED and include stimulated emission (the red laser beam's profile - at least originally - was "donut shaped" so that the center would not be depleted).

  • @andrewwilliams8187
    @andrewwilliams8187 9 років тому

    i think your great prof. I miss school, I know have nothing to do

  • @qatharsys
    @qatharsys 9 років тому +1

    The description of Hell's approach (STED) isn't really correct.

  • @mikkirurk1
    @mikkirurk1 9 років тому +1

    *That tie...*

  • @alan2here
    @alan2here 9 років тому

    Laser Tweezers made of laser light to hold and control the shape of tiny droplets of liquid.
    Lasers to mutate the surfaces of materials to change their properties.
    Measuring gravitational variation over time, such as waves, by laser phase changes over time over a fixed distance.
    And now interfering frequencies (colour etc...) of lasers on a single point, presumably being careful with phase and distance too, to sharpen the point that is lit, to build higher resolution microscope cameras.

  • @daveandlouise123
    @daveandlouise123 9 років тому

    I wish I'd had Professor Martyn as my chemistry teacher when I was at school

  • @Jeffsdata_0
    @Jeffsdata_0 9 років тому

    Epic video!

  • @Kabodanki
    @Kabodanki 9 років тому

    it's like a mix between biology / chemistry / physics

  • @JustinKoenigSilica
    @JustinKoenigSilica 9 років тому +1

    if the professor doesn't understand it, i'm not even trying to.

  • @MrAwesomesize
    @MrAwesomesize 9 років тому

    Outside of biologi would there be any advantage to this over electron microscopes?

  • @Ozzah
    @Ozzah 9 років тому

    My understanding of this technique is a little different to the explanation given here. Again, two lasers are used. The first laser energises the sample so that it will give off fluorescence at some non-deterministic time in the future (probably nano or milliseconds in the future). I believe the first laser can be of perhaps any wavelength so long as it transmits enough energy to sufficiently energise the sample. The second laser is then a tuned laser to stimulate emission of the sample immediately.
    So the first laser energises it to cause the sample to fluoresce at some later time, but the second laser causes the sample to fluoresce immediately. i.e. it's "stimulated emission".
    The catch is, there is a small hole in the 2nd laser. Something very small is obstructing the beam in the middle, which means that all atoms/molecules in the samples will immediately fluoresce EXCEPT the part that's not hit by the 2nd laser due to the hole in the beam. That section of the sample will then fluoresce at a slightly later time, and the system uses that information to build up an image.
    By increasing the power of the 2nd laser and decreasing the surface area of the obstruction, they can, in principle, get arbitrarily fine resolutions. The catch is that as the energy of the laser gets higher, you eventually vaporise your sample.
    Having said all that, I understand there were 2 related but different methods produced for this Nobel prize, so perhaps the Professor is talking about one method and I'm talking about the other.

  • @thebestofall007
    @thebestofall007 9 років тому

    Hey Martyn, do us a favor: Go win a Nobel Prize of your own so you can keep making more videos.

  • @thomaspatton8777
    @thomaspatton8777 9 років тому

    I really like periodic table of videos.

  • @Daniel39363
    @Daniel39363 9 років тому

    7:02 I completely agree with the professor on this one. When I first saw the nobel prize listings I though 'what the hell'.

  • @TheMeilinger
    @TheMeilinger 9 років тому

    My first year studying chemistry in Göttingen, our professor gets the nobel price. coincidence? i think not

  • @cwcoress
    @cwcoress 9 років тому

    i bet he goes crazy in the dog toy isle at a store. Ive seen so many dog toys in these videos but i love them

  • @BenavidesJorge
    @BenavidesJorge 9 років тому +3

    Prof. Poliakoff is so cool

  • @SquareKiteGaming
    @SquareKiteGaming 9 років тому

    This man is the human incarnation of of the field of chemistry itself.

  • @youtubehandlesareridiculous
    @youtubehandlesareridiculous 9 років тому

    I agree with the professor at the end with this being physics, and the physics being chemistry.

  • @VA7SL
    @VA7SL 9 років тому

    Professor what have you done to your hair???

  • @CURIOUS0111
    @CURIOUS0111 9 років тому

    Thumbs up for the tie!

  • @patrickdebellefeuille4196
    @patrickdebellefeuille4196 9 років тому

    I liked ure hair the way it was before, it had alot more caracter and personality!

  • @teekanne15
    @teekanne15 9 років тому

    In the end it doesn't matter what name you give your field of research as long as you make great discoveries.

  • @gluckmach
    @gluckmach 9 років тому

    Try visiting Hawaii to give a lecture to my Adv./AP Chemistry class :)

  • @xanokothe
    @xanokothe 9 років тому +1

    You trick me! I thought you would talk about the 3 scientist that won the price for "the blue LED" stuff!

    • @kiffe22
      @kiffe22 9 років тому

      that was the nobel price for physics i believe

    • @riskinhos
      @riskinhos 9 років тому +1

      "This is your last chance. After this, there is no turning back. You take the blue LED-the story ends, you turn the microscope in your lab and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red LED too -you stay in lab, and the microscope will show you how deep the rabbit hole goes. Remember: all I'm offering is the truth. Nothing more."
      Chemical Morpheus

  • @rockenrollbass
    @rockenrollbass 9 років тому

    I love you SCIENCE and all your branches.

  • @plantman5126
    @plantman5126 9 років тому

    awesome

  • @juliascheaffer6776
    @juliascheaffer6776 9 років тому

    Why doesn't any body use the professor's name?

  • @Ti133700N
    @Ti133700N 9 років тому

    Nice tie, cool science

  • @riskinhos
    @riskinhos 9 років тому +2

    you are making all these videos and I really appreciate them they are all very cool BUT
    PLEASE update the element videos.....
    I mean, it's periodicvideos... we can't even see all elements! yesterday I was watching Lanthanum video for example and we don't even get to see a sample... yet you have made hundreds of other videos about other things that are not elements. and despite appreciating those I feel like it's lacking a lot by not having much information about not so known elements :(

    • @AgnostosGnostos
      @AgnostosGnostos 9 років тому

      You are right. I agree!!!

    • @PedroSilva-om2zq
      @PedroSilva-om2zq 9 років тому

      Ivory vines
      do you serious believe a 1min video is the same as 15min one with several demonstrations and interviews?

  • @lundme
    @lundme 9 років тому +15

    I can't believe that the Nobel prize is going to Hell...

  • @rhodesy761uk
    @rhodesy761uk 9 років тому +9

    the prof as a new hair cut

    • @chairwood
      @chairwood 9 років тому +28

      I don't see the professor disguising himself as a new hair cut anywhere in this video.

    • @johnhilbert7640
      @johnhilbert7640 9 років тому

      Dan Wipper Yeah, I think he knows that. But the point he was trying to make was how unclear the guy's statement was. So instead of saying:"the prof as a new hair cut", he would've said something like:"the prof with a new hair cut".

    • @Cinimod105
      @Cinimod105 9 років тому

      John Hilbert It's just a small typo lol.
      has*

    • @johnhilbert7640
      @johnhilbert7640 9 років тому

      ***** Oh, ok.

  • @patrickleahey4574
    @patrickleahey4574 9 років тому

    I would beg to differ with the Academy on the prize for Chemistry going to physics and biology, essentially. Considering the great importance that green chemistry is to the sustainability of life on Earth, someone or group doing this kind of work should have gotten the prize.

  • @mid7699
    @mid7699 3 роки тому

    Let us predict Nobel Prizes 2020

  • @RobThePlumber
    @RobThePlumber 9 років тому +5

    I thought that Periodic Table of Videos won the 2014 Nobel Prize in Chemistry......

  • @SteveWalden73
    @SteveWalden73 9 років тому

    When I saw the title of the video, I thought "Oh? They won?"

  • @MusicPotato19
    @MusicPotato19 9 років тому

    i live in the city where one of the nobel price winners works!!! :D

  • @robertadorrough3852
    @robertadorrough3852 9 років тому

    Funny though, the physics prize was awarded to those who had a direct commercial application and the chemistry prize went to those whose motivations were leaning more toward pure science. Usually the other way around, isn't it?

  • @69mrsteveo
    @69mrsteveo 9 років тому

    Physics is before chemistry...Physics is the study of everything.

  • @LordMarcus
    @LordMarcus 9 років тому

    Who wants to finance me to invent a television whose picture is generated by fluorescent proteins?

    • @ronnetgrazer362
      @ronnetgrazer362 9 років тому +16

      Илья Найдов
      So, kickstarter it is then...

  • @mszczepaniak
    @mszczepaniak 9 років тому

    At 5:01 the prof mispronounces Betzig and it sounds like breadstick 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

  • @zenzylok
    @zenzylok 9 років тому

    Many new things about biology will be discovered due to this advancement.

  • @claire5244
    @claire5244 9 років тому

    I thought I was the only one who thinks something unusual is going on with Professor's hair. But when I scroll down the comments... unless everyone made the same mistake, I don't seem to be very wrong :P

  • @Olsfen1
    @Olsfen1 9 років тому

    Nice new glasses.

  • @CelticSaint
    @CelticSaint 9 років тому

    I've always fantasized about owning an electron microscope!!
    btw what is that spinning around, in the reflection just over the profs right shoulder? A CD on a piece of string!

    • @Tuttomenui
      @Tuttomenui 9 років тому +2

      It's a reflection on the LCD screen. Definitely something spinning on a string in the window.

    • @riskinhos
      @riskinhos 9 років тому +1

      you have strange fantasies...

  • @SteveWalden73
    @SteveWalden73 9 років тому

    6:21 Look, it's a bird!

  • @relike868p
    @relike868p 9 років тому +1

    Please include more photos or video clips in the video...... mere talking is boring...

  • @MrPolymath0
    @MrPolymath0 9 років тому +9

    engineers won the physics Nobel prize, physicists BTFO

    • @hatbat1234
      @hatbat1234 9 років тому +2

      Engineering FTW!

    • @lightsidemaster
      @lightsidemaster 9 років тому

      hatbat1234
      Honestly.... I'm studying physics but I wish I had the time to actually study Engineering after I'm done with physics. Both are very important. And those two disciplines need each other.
      Imagine what one could do after having mastered both!!

    • @hatbat1234
      @hatbat1234 9 років тому +1

      ***** Yes, both are excellent
      careers and help to change and better understand our world.
      If you take up engineering, taking one that you like the most. If you like mathematics and chemistry, choose electronic or electric. If you like programing or more mechanical sides, choose mechatronic or systems.
      Trust me, as an engineer, you'll go places most people don't ever think they'll ever go. The last project I had, was very large; involved flying stuff, 'cough' 2009 'cough'.
      If you're extremely well on what you do, your university can call you right up and ask you to be a professor. I'm teaching calculus, differentials/ integral and lineal algebra.

    • @lightsidemaster
      @lightsidemaster 9 років тому

      hatbat1234
      Wow that sounds really nice.
      Seems like you made the right choice!
      Congrats to that!

    • @lightsidemaster
      @lightsidemaster 9 років тому +1

      Xaurum Planck
      You could just have a civilised discussion with him, instead of bashing him you know?
      The thing is... physicists obviously have a deeper physical knowledge than engineers.
      But we can't build most of the stuff.
      Engineers need to do that.
      Which is why I said, I'd love to study both.
      You know... inventing something and then building it yourself.

  • @DFZero235
    @DFZero235 9 років тому

    Wait, when did the professor get new glasses?

  • @lennutrajektoor
    @lennutrajektoor 9 років тому

    The hairdo does the professor at least 10 years younger :D

  • @Metrallata
    @Metrallata 9 років тому

    1:58 In other words the electron beams in an electron microscope are like americans post 9/11

  • @nekkun831
    @nekkun831 9 років тому +5

    HE GOT A HAIRCUT.
    NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooooo

  • @letstrend
    @letstrend 9 років тому

    oh what the heck you cut your hair prof!!!

  • @Silvertarian
    @Silvertarian 9 років тому

    What if you make a camera that is smaller than a living cell.

  • @harmtaro
    @harmtaro 9 років тому +1

    5:00 breadstick

  • @TheGambiii
    @TheGambiii 9 років тому

    You had your haircut :( But great video

  • @MegaCraigh
    @MegaCraigh 9 років тому

    Has the Prof. had a haircut? Please say no. But the microscope thing is pretty cool either way. Although, as the Prof. said, I would have swapped the physics and chemistry awards.

  • @AgnostosGnostos
    @AgnostosGnostos 9 років тому

    Impossible. Poliakof had a haircut...

  • @Mizziri
    @Mizziri 9 років тому

    NOOOO THE HAIR

  • @donathon680
    @donathon680 9 років тому

    his hand gestures are funny

  • @resonantdave
    @resonantdave 9 років тому

    WHAT?? Cool cool cool COOL.

  • @Meenar2507
    @Meenar2507 Місяць тому

    2024❤

  • @teeKayNW
    @teeKayNW 9 років тому

    3-4- Quantum-Physical-biochemical-Technological Tech = SymmetricalTech**.. Noble prize 2008 okay we get it. More experiments, more questions, more scientifical conclusion(s).

  • @kl1nk0r
    @kl1nk0r 9 років тому

    New glasses? :-D

  • @htc148
    @htc148 9 років тому

    Nice glasses.

  • @MisterSkillet100
    @MisterSkillet100 9 років тому

    I am always disappointed when I open a new Periodic Video and the professor has had a haircut.

  • @comprehensiveboy
    @comprehensiveboy 9 років тому

    I hope the same principle does not apply to the professor's hair as is reputed to have applied Samson's.

  • @NichoTBE
    @NichoTBE 9 років тому

    nice haircut prof :)

    • @AgnostosGnostos
      @AgnostosGnostos 9 років тому

      😈I love his hair. It is his trademark.

  • @KodiakBear872
    @KodiakBear872 9 років тому

    2 Of the winners live in the USA, but all 3 have german last names :D

    • @riskinhos
      @riskinhos 9 років тому

      and none of them deserves it.

  • @m93sek
    @m93sek 9 років тому +9

    all the three scientits names sound german (jewish)

    • @powaybob
      @powaybob 9 років тому +23

      So????

    • @emperorpalpatine9841
      @emperorpalpatine9841 9 років тому +1

      They're Canadian and German.

    • @CODMASTA
      @CODMASTA 9 років тому +10

      *throws bag of attention*

    • @m93sek
      @m93sek 9 років тому

      I am not judging. Just came to mind...

    • @gosiahh
      @gosiahh 9 років тому

      The first one is part Romanian, part German

  • @bronzenrule
    @bronzenrule 9 років тому

    Like the zinger(s) at the Nobel committees by the prof.

  • @redcat3928
    @redcat3928 9 років тому +1

    funny scientist ^^

  • @Werwa_
    @Werwa_ 9 років тому

    first blocker.

    • @jazzpi
      @jazzpi 9 років тому

      First.
      What are you going to do now?

  • @SmallFreakingJack
    @SmallFreakingJack 9 років тому +1

    New haircut

  • @culwin
    @culwin 9 років тому

    Everything's done with lasers these days

  • @Carbocats
    @Carbocats 9 років тому

    nice haircut

  • @DeathBringer9000
    @DeathBringer9000 9 років тому

    biology is chemistry and chemistry is physics

    • @ronaldderooij1774
      @ronaldderooij1774 9 років тому

      Yes, I would add biology is applied Chemistry (by nature) and Chemistry is applied physics (by humans).

  • @garou108
    @garou108 9 років тому

    Who gave the Swedish academy of science the rights to give prices anyway? Seems to me that they are taking advantages of the work of real scientists to raise their profile... Dynamite?

  • @catsupchutney
    @catsupchutney 9 років тому +2

    I always viewed chemistry as wet physics, and I bet the Swedish Academy figured the same.

  • @Ivo--
    @Ivo-- 9 років тому

    PROFESSOR!!!! YOUR HAIR IS MISSING!!!!!