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Heinrich Rohrer

Heinrich Rohrer
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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.

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Who was born first?

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  1. Heinrich Rohrer (this page)June 6, 1933 – May 16, 2013
  2. Paul J. CrutzenDecember 3, 1933 – January 28, 2021
  3. Richard ErnstAugust 14, 1933 – June 4, 2021
  4. Robert CurlAugust 23, 1933 – July 3, 2022
  5. William Luther PierceSeptember 11, 1933 – July 23, 2002
  6. Yuri OganessianApril 14, 1933 – present

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