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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
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.