The Nobel Prize in Physics 1986
Awarded on: 1986-10-15
"for their design of the scanning tunneling microscope"
Affiliations:
- IBM Zurich Research Laboratory – Rüschlikon, Switzerland
Gerd Binnig
Born: 1947-07-20 in Frankfurt-on-the-Main, West Germany (now Germany)
Gender: male
Field: German physicist (born 1947)
Biography
Gerd Binnig is a German physicist. He is most famous for having won the Nobel Prize in Physics jointly with Heinrich Rohrer in 1986 for the invention of the scanning tunneling microscope.