Awarded Kavli Prize in Nanoscience (2016).
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Gerd Binnig
Gerd Karl Binnig 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.
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science · German physicist (born 1947) · physicist · also Gerd Binnig, Gerd Karl Binnig, Binnig, Gerd K. Binnig
Born 20 July 1947 · Q76766
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2016· 2 entries
Binnig won the Kavli Prize in Nanoscience
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2004· 1 entry
Awarded honorary member of the Physics Association (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) (2004).
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1998· 1 entry
Awarded Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art (1998).
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1994· 2 entries
Awarded National Inventors Hall of Fame (1994).
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Professor Gerd Binnig founded Definiens which turned in the year 2000 into a commercial enterprise
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1991· 1 entry
Won Urania Medal (1991).
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1987· 2 entries
Won Elliott Cresson Medal (1987).
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Binnig was appointed IBM Fellow
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1986· 4 entries
Awarded Nobel Prize in Physics (1986).
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For the invention of the scanning tunneling microscope
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Binnig and Rohrer shared half of the Nobel Prize in Physics, the other half of the Prize was awarded to Ernst Ruska
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Published “Atomic Force Microscope” in Physical Review Letters — cited 12,538 times.
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1985· 1 entry
Binnig invented the atomic force microscope (AFM) and Binnig, Christoph Gerber and Calvin Quate went on to develop a working version of this new microscope for insulating surfaces
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1984· 2 entries
Awarded King Faisal International Prize in Science (1984).
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Awarded EPS Europhysics Prize (1984).
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1983· 2 entries
Awarded Gustav Hertz Prize (1983).
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Awarded Klung Wilhelmy Science Award (1983).
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1982· 1 entry
Published “Surface Studies by Scanning Tunneling Microscopy” in Physical Review Letters — cited 4,062 times.
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1978· 1 entry
Binnig accepted an offer from IBM to join their Zurich research group, where he worked with Heinrich Rohrer, Christoph Gerber and Edmund Weibel
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1973· 1 entry
And remaining there to do a PhD within Werner Martienssen's group, supervised by Eckhardt Hoenig
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1969· 1 entry
Binnig married Lore Wagler, a psychologist, and they have a daughter born in Switzerland and a son born in California
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1947· 1 entry
Born 1947-07-20.
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