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Christoph Gerber

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Christoph Gerber is a Swiss physicist born May 15, 1942, a professor at the University of Basel. He co-invented the atomic force microscope alongside Gerd Binnig and Calvin Quate, publishing the invention in 1986 in Physical Review Letters. He shared the 2016 Kavli Prize in Nanoscience with Binnig and Quate for the scanning force microscope, and he is a fellow of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, the American Physical Society and the Institute of Physics UK.

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1942 1
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Switzerland 1
Birthplace
Basel, Switzerland 1
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Physics 1
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  • P27 (country of citizenship): Switzerland
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  • P19 (place of birth): Basel, Switzerland
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  • Works In: Physics, Lead sentence
    Christoph Gerber (born 1942) is a Swiss physicist and professor at the University of Basel.
  • Member Of: American Physical Society, Article text
    He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and a Fellow of the Institute of Physic
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