Heinrich Rohrer
June 6, 1933 –May 16, 2013
Physicist
Lived 79 years
- Born in
- Buchs
- Passed away in
- Wollerau
Heinrich Rohrer (6 June 1933 – 16 May 2013) 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. Rohrer in his memory. The medal is not to be confused with the Heinrich Rohrer Award presented at the Nano Seoul 2020 conference.
Awards: IBM Fellow, King Faisal Prize in Science, EPS Europhysics Prize, Nobel Prize in Physics, Elliott Cresson Medal, National Inventors Hall of Fame, honorary doctorate of the University of the Mediterranean - Aix Marseille II Education: ETH Zurich
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