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- 1947-07-20
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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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1947 births20th-century German inventors20th-century German physicists21st-century German physicistsForeign associates of the National Academy of SciencesGerman experimental physicistsGerman Nobel laureatesGoethe University Frankfurt alumniGrand Crosses with Star and Sash of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of GermanyIBM employeesIBM Fellows