Gerd Binnig | |
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Born | |
Alma mater | Goethe University Frankfurt |
Known for | Scanning tunneling microscope Scanning probe microscopy Atomic force microscope |
Awards | Klung Wilhelmy Science Award (1983) EPS Europhysics Prize (1984) King Faisal Prize (1984) Nobel Prize in Physics (1986) The Elliott Cresson Medal (1987) Kavli Prize (2016) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Physics |
Institutions | IBM Zurich Research Laboratory |
Doctoral advisor | Werner Martienssen Eckhardt Hoenig |
Doctoral students | Franz Josef Giessibl |
Gerd Binnig (German pronunciation: [ˈɡɛʁt ˈbɪnɪç] ; born 20 July 1947[1]) is a German physicist. He is most famous for having won the Nobel Prize in Physics jointly with Heinrich Rohrer in 1986 for the invention of the scanning tunneling microscope.[2]