Heinrich Rohrer
Swiss physicist
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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. The other half of the Prize was awarded to Ernst Ruska. Wikipedia
Born: June 6, 1933, Buchs, Switzerland
Died: May 16, 2013 (age 79 years), Wollerau, Switzerland
Education: ETH Zürich
Notable student: Christian Schönenberger
Known for: Scanning tunneling microscope; Scanning probe microscopy
Awards: Nobel Prize in Physics and Elliott Cresson Medal
Spouse: Rose-Marie Egger (m. 1961)