Scientists

Heinrich Rohrer

HINE-rikh ROH-rer

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  author = {Science Atlas},
  title = {Heinrich Rohrer},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://science.interactiveatlas.org/scientists/heinrich-rohrer},
  note = {Accessed August 30, 2026}
}

Swiss physicist who, with Gerd Binnig at the IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, invented the scanning tunneling microscope in 1981. He shared half of the 1986 Nobel Prize in Physics with Binnig.

Facts

Birth Year

1933 1

Death Year

2013 1

Field

Physics 1

Cross-Tradition Connections

Invented

Scanning Tunneling Microscope

Co-invented the scanning tunneling microscope with Gerd Binnig at IBM Zurich Research Laboratory in 1981.

Source Heinrich Rohrer, Biographical (Nobel Prize)

Works In

Physics

Source Heinrich Rohrer (Wikipedia)

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1. Heinrich Rohrer (Wikipedia)

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Quote, Lead section

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).

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1. Heinrich Rohrer (Wikipedia)

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Heinrich Rohrer, Biographical (Nobel Prize)

NobelPrize.orgInvented: Scanning Tunneling MicroscopeView the Source

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