Gerd Binnig
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Gerd Binnig (born 20 Julie 1947[1]) is a German pheesicist, who won the Nobel Prize in Pheesics in 1986 for the invention o the scannin tunnelin microscope.[2]
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Gerd Binnig | |
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Born | 20 Julie 1947(1947-07-20) Frankfurt am Main |
Alma mater | J.W. Goethe Varsity, Frankfurt |
Kent for | Scanning tunnelin microscope, atomic force microscope |
Awairds | Nobel Prize in Pheesics (1986) The Elliott Cresson Medal (1987) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Pheesics |
Institutions | IBM Zurich Research Laboratory |
Doctoral advisor | Werner Martienssen Eckhardt Hoenig |
Doctoral students | D. P. E. Smith, Franz Josef Giessibl, Frank Ohnesorge |
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