20th- and 21st-century German physicist and neurobiologist
Winfried Denk
Born
(1957-11-12) November 12, 1957 (age 66)
Munich, Germany
Nationality
German
Occupation
Physicist
Known for
Serial block-face scanning electron microscopy Two-photon excitation microscopy
Awards
Michael and Kate Bárány Award (1998) Leibniz Prize (2003) W. Alden Spencer Award (2006) Kavli Prize (2012) Rosenstiel Award (2013) The Brain Prize (2015)
Academic background
Academic advisors
Watt W. Webb
Winfried Denk (born November 12, 1957, in Munich) is a German physicist. He built the first two-photon microscope while he was a graduate student (and briefly a postdoc) in Watt W. Webb's lab at Cornell University, in 1989.
WinfriedDenk (born November 12, 1957, in Munich) is a German physicist. He built the first two-photon microscope while he was a graduate student (and...
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elucidating basic neuronal mechanisms underlying perception and decision" WinfriedDenk Max Planck Institute for Medical Research Ann M. Graybiel Massachusetts...
stimulation. Another technique, the Two Photons Microscopy (2P), invented by WinfriedDenk (for which he has been awarded the Brain Prize in 2015), John H. Strickler...
Gustav Denk (24 January 1915 – 13 February 1943) was a German military aviator who served in the Luftwaffe during World War II. As a fighter ace, he was...
Alexander Borst Department Elektrons – Photons – Neurons, headed by WinfriedDenk Department Behavioural Neurobiology, headed by Manfred Gahr Department...
and behavioural disorders" Stanislas Dehaene Trevor W. Robbins 2015 WinfriedDenk "For invention, refinement and use of two-photon microscopy to provide...
combining calcium imaging with the two-photon microscope invented by WinfriedDenk and, through discussions with John Hopfield and David Tank, becoming...
DeLong 1938– United States Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences - 2014. WinfriedDenk 1957– United States Kavli prize in Neuroscience - 2012., The Brain Prize...
awarded the Kavli Prize in Neuroscience, along with Cornelia Bargmann and WinfriedDenk, "for elucidating basic neuronal mechanisms underlying perception and...
larval zebrafish brain at synapse scale: Baier, in collaboration with WinfriedDenk and a team at Google research, published the first automatically segmented...
new technology that imaged the brain in higher resolution built by WinfriedDenk. It was then that Seung worked day and night writing grant proposals...
mechanisms of genome rearrangements in immune and cancer cells 2013 WinfriedDenk, David Tank and Watt W. Webb, in recognition of their invention of multiphoton...
Capasso 1998 – Isamu Akasaki, Hiroshi Amano and Shuji Nakamura 2000 – WinfriedDenk and Watt W. Webb 2006 – Charles H. Bennett, Gilles Brassard and Stephen...
Manfred Strecker – structural geology (University of Potsdam) 2003: WinfriedDenk – medical optics (Max Planck Institute for Medical Research, Heidelberg)...
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