German physicist who, with Heinrich Rohrer at the IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, invented the scanning tunneling microscope in 1981, the first instrument to image individual atoms on a surface directly. He was awarded half of the 1986 Nobel Prize in Physics for the invention, the other half going to Ernst Ruska for the electron microscope.
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Binnig invented the atomic force microscope in 1986 with Calvin Quate and Christoph Gerber (neither a live entity in this atlas, so credited here to Binnig alone); Binnig had already shared the 1986 Nobel Prize in Physics for the earlier scanning tunneling microscope.
Co-invented the scanning tunneling microscope with Heinrich Rohrer at IBM Zurich Research Laboratory in 1981.
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Gerd Karl Binnig (German pronunciation: [ˈɡɛʁt ˈbɪnɪç] ; born 20 July 1947) is a German physicist.
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