Heinrich Rohrer
Heinrich Rohrer was a Swiss physicist who shared half of the 1986 Nobel Prize in Physics with Gerd Binnig for the design of the scanning tunneling microscope (STM). The other half of the Prize was awarded to Ernst Ruska. The Heinrich Rohrer Medal is presented triennially by the Surface Science Society of Japan with IBM Research – Zurich, Swiss Embassy in Japan, and Ms.
Background
- Born in
- Buchs
- Educated at
- ETH Zurich
- Awards
- 🏆 Nobel Prize in Physics🏆 IBM Fellow🏆 Elliott Cresson Medal🏆 National Inventors Hall of Fame🏆 EPS Europhysics Prize
- Doctoral Advisors
- 🎓 Wolfgang Pauli
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