Published “The GTEx Consortium atlas of genetic regulatory effects across human tissues” in Science — cited 5,388 times.
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Heinrich Rohrer
Heinrich Rohrer was a Swiss physicist who shared half of the 1986 Nobel Prize in Physics with Gerd Binnig for the design of the scanning tunneling microscope (STM). The other half of the Prize was awarded to Ernst Ruska. The Heinrich Rohrer Medal is presented triennially by the Surface Science Society of Japan with IBM Research – Zurich, Swiss Embassy in Japan, and Ms. Rohrer in his memory. The me…
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science · Swiss physicist (1933–2013) · physicist · also Heinrich Rohrer, Rohrer
Born 6 June 1933 · Died 16 May 2013 · Q123029
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2016· 1 entry
Published “Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (3rd edition)” in Autophagy — cited 4,420 times.
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2015· 1 entry
Published “The Genotype-Tissue Expression (GTEx) pilot analysis: Multitissue gene regulation in humans” in Science — cited 4,858 times.
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2013· 4 entries
Died 2013-05-16.
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“We live of novelty in science. So when you do something new, you have to overcome certain beliefs that it cannot be done, that it's not interesting and so on.”
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Published “The Genotype-Tissue Expression (GTEx) project” in Nature Genetics — cited 8,595 times.
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“We had the freedom to make mistakes. That's something very important. Unfortunately, this freedom for scientists gets more and more lost. … Otherwise, you do the common things. You don't dare to do something beyond what everybody else thinks.”
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2011· 2 entries
Published “Sensitivity of revised diagnostic criteria for the behavioural variant of frontotemporal dementia” in Brain — cited 4,664 times.
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Published “Classification of primary progressive aphasia and its variants” in Neurology — cited 4,564 times.
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1994· 1 entry
Awarded National Inventors Hall of Fame (1994).
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1990· 1 entry
And an honorary academician of Academia Sinica in 2008
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1988· 1 entry
Awarded honorary doctorate of the University of the Mediterranean - Aix Marseille II (1988).
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1987· 1 entry
Won Elliott Cresson Medal (1987).
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1986· 3 entries
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics — for their design of the scanning tunneling microscope.
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Awarded Nobel Prize in Physics (1986).
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And led the physics department of the research lab from 1986 until 1988
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1984· 2 entries
Awarded EPS Europhysics Prize (1984).
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Awarded King Faisal International Prize in Science (1984).
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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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1974· 1 entry
Spent a sabbatical year at the University of California, Santa Barbara studying nuclear magnetic resonance with Vince Jaccarino and Alan King
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1963· 1 entry
Joined the IBM Research Laboratory in Rüschlikon under the direction of Ambros Speiser
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1951· 1 entry
Where he was student of Wolfgang Pauli and Paul Scherrer
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1933· 1 entry
Born 1933-06-06.
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