Gerd Binnig
Gerd Karl Binnig is a German physicist. He is most famous for having won the Nobel Prize in Physics jointly with Heinrich Rohrer in 1986 for the invention of the scanning tunneling microscope.
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- Born in
- Frankfurt
- Educated at
- Goethe University FrankfurtLudwig-Maximilians-Universität München
- Awards
- 🏆 Nobel Prize in Physics🏆 IBM Fellow🏆 Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art🏆 Bavarian Order of Merit🏆 Klung Wilhelmy Science Award
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1947
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