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
Heinrich Rohrer
Born: 1933-06-06 in Buchs, Switzerland
Gender: male
Field: Swiss physicist (1933–2013)
Biography
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.