Heinrich Rohrer
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.
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| Born | 6 June 1933 Buchs, St. Gallen, Switzerland |
| Died | 16 May 2013 (aged 79) Wollerau, Switzerland |
| Known for | Scanning tunneling microscope Scanning probe microscopy |
| Awards | EPS Europhysics Prize (1984) King Faisal Prize (1984) Nobel Prize in Physics (1986) Elliott Cresson Medal (1987) Fritz London Memorial Lecture (1992) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Physics |
| Institutions | University of California, Santa Barbara Tohoku University |
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