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Heinrich Rohrer (6 June 1933 – 16 May 2013) 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 th
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The Heinrich Rohrer Medal - a new international prize in the field of nanoscience and nanotechnology
Heinrich Rohrer: Physicist awarded the Nobel Prize for inventing a microscope of unprecedented power
Heinrich Rohrer, the Co-inventor of the Scanning Tunneling Microscope, Passed Away
Heinrich Rohrer, Physicist, Dies at 79; Helped Open Door to Nanotechnology (Published 2013)
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