# Heinrich Rohrer

> He helped invent the microscope that let us see individual atoms — a tool that turned quantum mechanics from theory into something you could point at and map, one surface at a time.

*Swiss physicist (1933-2013)*

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## Identity
- **Profile type:** Scientist ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631))
- **Category:** Scientists
- **Country:** Switzerland
- **Born:** 1933-06-06
- **Died:** 2013-05-16
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Heinrich Rohrer was born in Switzerland on 6 June 1933. In 1986, he and Gerd Binnig shared half the Nobel Prize in Physics for designing the scanning tunneling microscope, a device that made it possible to image surfaces at the atomic level; Ernst Ruska took the other half that year. The STM didn't just refine existing methods — it opened a new dimension of measurement, giving scientists direct access to structures that had been theoretical abstractions. Rohrer died on 16 May 2013. A medal bearing his name is now awarded triennially by the Surface Science Society of Japan, IBM Research – Zurich, the Swiss Embassy in Japan, and his widow.

## Fame
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## Topics
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