Gerd Binnig
German physicist
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German physicist who won the 1986 Nobel Prize in Physics with Heinrich Rohrer for inventing the scanning tunneling microscope—basically the tool that let scientists see atoms for the first time.
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Gerd Karl Binnig 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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