Heinrich Rohrer

Rohrer in June 2008

Heinrich Rohrer (6 June 1933 – 16 May 2013) was a Swiss physicist. He 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.)[1]

Rohrer was born on 6 June 1933 in Buchs, St. Gallen, Switzerland. He was raised in Zürich, Switzerland. Rohrer studied at Swiss Federal Institute of Technology.

He was elected a member of the Academia Europaea in 1991.[2]

He was never married. Rohrer died on 16 May 2013 in Wollerau, Switzerland after battling a disease, aged 79.[3]

References

  1. ↑ "The Nobel Prize in Physics 1986, Heinrich Rohrer". Archived from the original on 21 April 2013. Retrieved 20 February 2013.
  2. ↑ "Heinrich Rohrer". Academia Europaea. Archived from the original on 28 March 2019.
  3. ↑ Schweizer Physik Nobel preistraeger Heinrich-Rohrer ist tot at tagesanzeiger.ch.com
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