Gerd Binnig
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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.
Binnig in 2013
Ernst Ruska
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Ernst August Friedrich Ruska was a German physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1986 for his work in electron optics, including the design of the first electron microscope.
Gerd Binnig
…Packard Prize and the King Faisal Prize. In 1986, Binnig and Rohrer shared half of the Nobel Prize in Physics, the other half of the Prize was awarded to Ernst Ruska. From 1985 to 1988, he worked in California. He was at IBM in Almaden Valley, and was visiting professor at Stanford University…
First commercial Electron microscope, constructed by Ernst Ruska in 1939
Statue in Jena, Germany