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Heinrich Rohrer
Full Name of the recipient | Heinrich Rohrer |
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Award | Nobel Prize in Physics |
Year of Award | 1986 |
Share in Award | 25.0% |
Award Shared with | Ernst Ruska (50.0%) Gerd Binnig (25.0%) |
Motivation for the Award | for their design of the scanning tunneling microscope |
Affiliation at the Time of Award | IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, Rüschlikon, Switzerland |
Place of Birth | Buchs, Switzerland CHE |
Date of Birth | 6 June 1933 |
Age at the time of Award | 52 years |
Place of Death | Wollerau, Switzerland CHE |
Date of Death | 16 May 2013 |