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. Rohrer in his memory. The medal is not to be confused with the Heinrich Rohrer Award presented at the Nano Seoul 2020 conference.

6 June 1933

Born on the same birth day (6 June): Anthony Rendon • Aram Khachaturian • David Connolly • Eliza Orzeszkowa • Holly Near • James Barnor • Klaus Tennstedt • Michael Krohn-Dehli • Monty Alexander • Pape Souaré • Phillip Allen Sharp • Robert Falcon Scott • Sonya Walger • Steve Vai • Sunil Dutt • Tommie Smith • Vic Mensa • Yvon Mvogo

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