Gerd Binnig

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Gerd Binnig
Born20 Julie 1947(1947-07-20)
Frankfurt am Main
Alma materJ.W. Goethe Varsity, Frankfurt
Kent forScanning tunnelin microscope, atomic force microscope
AwairdsNobel Prize in Pheesics (1986)
The Elliott Cresson Medal (1987)
Scientific career
FieldsPheesics
InstitutionsIBM Zurich Research Laboratory
Doctoral advisorWerner Martienssen
Eckhardt Hoenig
Doctoral studentsD. P. E. Smith, Franz Josef Giessibl, Frank Ohnesorge

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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  1. "Gerd Binnig - Biographical". Nobel Media AB. 1986. Retrieved 1 Januar 2014.
  2. "The Nobel Prize in Physics 1986 - Press Release". Nobel Media AB. 15 October 1986. Retrieved 1 Januar 2014.