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Gerd Binnig and Heinrich Rohrer

Gerd Binnig and Heinrich Rohrer

Gerd Binnig and Heinrich Rohrer invented the Scanning Tunneling Microscope in 1981 working at IBM Zurich. Binnig also invented the Atomic Force Microscope with Calvin Quate in 1986 while spending a year at Stanford University. Binnig and Rohrer received the Nobel Prize for physics in 1986.

We have conducted an interview with them on May 4, 2001 and this page will be updated soon. For now, we have an analysis of the papers that Binnig and Rohrer wrote between 1981 and 1986:

This page was last updated on 17 May 2001 by Arne Hessenbruch.