Heinrich Rohrer was born in 1933, in Buchs, St. Gallen, Switzerland, the son of Hans Heinrich Rohrer, a distributor of manufactured goods, and Katharina Ganpenbein Rohrer. He received his Ph.D. in phy...
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Heinrich Rohrer shared half of the 1986 Nobel Prize in physics with Gerd Binnig for their development of an entirely new type of microscope that revealed for the first time the atomic structure of the...
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