Other Awards and Honors
2001 Awards
Single-molecule Spectroscopy Among 101 Most Important Scientific Discoveries
DOE’s Office of Science in June 2001 named single-molecule spectroscopy among the 101 most important scientific discoveries supported by the Office during the past 25 years. Real-time observation of individual enzyme molecules by Peter Lu of PNNL and Sunney Xie, Harvard University, established single-molecule spectroscopy as one of the most important new methods for unraveling chemical dynamics in heterogeneous and complex chemical systems. In addition to their pioneering work on biological systems, Dr. Xie and Dr. Lu have developed and applied single-molecule spectroscopic methods for studying chemical dynamics in interfacial chemical systems, semiconductor nanoparticles, and nanostructures. (announced 6/1/2001)