Heinrich Rohrer
Heinrich Rohrer (born
6 June 1933) is a Swiss physicist. At the
IBM Research Laboratory in
Zürich, Rohrer and fellow researcher
Gerd Binnig built the first
scanning tunneling microscope, an instrument so sensitive that it can distinguish individual atoms. For their innovation they shared the 1986
Nobel Prize in Physics with
Ernst Ruska, who invented (1933) the first
electron microscope.
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