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Gerd Binnig

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Gerd Binnig

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Also known as Gerd Karl Binnig, Binnig, Gerd K. Binnig

German physicist

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Gerd Karl Binnig is a German physicist born in Frankfurt in 1947. He holds citizenship in Germany and Allied-occupied Germany. Binnig has worked as an employee of IBM and Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and speaks German.

His professional recognition includes the Nobel Prize in Physics, the Elliott Cresson Medal, the title of IBM Fellow, and the Bavarian Order of Merit. Binnig is included in the Nobel Laureates collection, the Nobel Physics collection, and the National Inventors Hall Of Fame collection. He was educated at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München and Goethe University Frankfurt.

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Nobel Prize

  • The Nobel Prize in Physics1986

    “for their design of the scanning tunneling microscope”

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
human
Given name
Karl
Gender
male
Citizenship
Allied-occupied Germany
Place of birth
Frankfurt
Occupation
physicist
Educated at
Goethe University Frankfurt
Employer
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Languages spoken
German
Award
EPS Europhysics Prize
Field of work
physics
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date of birth
1947-07-20
member of
National Academy of Sciences
Commons category
Gerd Binnig
Erdős number
6
birth name
Gerd Karl Binnig
name in native language
Gerd Binnig
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IPA transcription
ˈɡɛʁt ˈbɪnɪç
maintained by WikiProject
WikiProject Germany
interested in
physics
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Encyclopedic overview

Gerd Karl Binnig ( German pronunciation: [ˈɡɛʁt ˈbɪnɪç] ; born 20 July 1947) 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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