I attended school in both cities, and it was in Frankfurt that I started to study physics. Already as a child about 10 years of age, I had decided to become a physicist without actually knowing what it involved. While studying physics, I started to wonder whether I had really made the right choice. ... Gerd Binnig thumb picture...
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Ernst Ruska Born 1906 Died 1988 Gerd Binnig Born 1947 Heinrich Rohrer Born 1933 ... "for his fundamental work in electron optics, and for the design of the first electron microscope" ... "for their design of the scanning tunneling microscope"
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Gerd Binnig (born July 20, 1947) is a German physicist, and a Nobel laureate. He was born in Frankfurt am Main and played in the ruins of the city during his childhood. His family lived partly in Fra...
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Gerd Karl Binnig and Heinrich Rohrer are the inventors of the scanning tunneling microscope or STM which provided the first images of individual atoms on the surfaces of materials. ... IBM Press Release: Gerd Binnig, along with his colleague, Heinrich Rohrer, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in in 1986 for his work...
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AKA Gerd Karl Binnig ... Born: 20-Jul-1947; Birthplace: Frankfurt am Main, Germany; ... Gender: Male; Race or Ethnicity: White; Sexual orientation: Straight; Occupation: Physicist...
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Gerd Karl Binnig ; Born Jul 20 1947 ; Scanning Tunneling Microscope; Patent Number(s) 4,343,993; Inducted 1994; Since the invention of the first microscope, scientists have searched for improved ways to explore the microscopic world.
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Doing physics is much more enjoyable than just learning it. Maybe 'doing it' is the right way of learning, at least as far as I am concerned. ... Gerd Binnig (born July 20, 1947) is a German physicist, who he shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1986 with Heinrich Rohrer for their design of the scanning tunneling microscope.
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Binnig graduated from Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt and received a doctorate from the University of Frankfurt in 1978. He then joined the IBM Research Laboratory in Zurich, where he and Rohrer designed and built the first scanning tunneling microscope (STM). This instrument produces images of the...
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Gerd Karl Binnig ... In 1986, Gerd Binnig and Heinrich Rohrer were awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics. (They shared the Nobel Prize with Ernst Ruska, the inventor of the first electron microscope.) Since 1987, Binnig is honorary Professor at Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich.
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