# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/christoph-gerber
# Generated: 2026-09-02T05:24:14.093Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/christoph-gerber"
name: "Christoph Gerber"
slug: "christoph-gerber"
description: "Christoph Gerber is a Swiss physicist and professor at the University of Basel. He is the co-inventor of the atomic force microscope (AFM), together with Gerd Binnig and Calvin Quate."
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country:
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category:
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birthDate: "1942-05-15"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump