Steven M. Block
Professor
Biology Department
Stanford University
United States of America
Biography
S.M. Block holds the Ascherman Chair in the Depts. of Applied Physics and Biology at Stanford. He’s best-known as a founder of the field known as “single molecule biophysics.” Block holds degrees from Oxford and Caltech, and served as faculty at the Rowland Institute and Harvard
Research Interest
Single molecule biophysics using optical trapping and fluorescence