1. Gerd Binnig 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.
12 Facts About Gerd Binnig
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Gerd Binnig's family lived partly in Frankfurt and partly in Offenbach am Main, and he attended school in both cities.
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Gerd Binnig concentrated more on music, playing in a band.
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Gerd Binnig started playing the violin at 15 and played in his school orchestra.
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Gerd Binnig studied physics at the Goethe University Frankfurt, gaining a bachelor's degree in 1973 and remaining there to do a PhD with in Werner Martienssen's group, supervised by Eckhardt Hoenig, and being awarded to him in 1978.
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In 1978, Gerd Binnig accepted an offer from IBM to join their Zurich research group, where he worked with Heinrich Rohrer, Christoph Gerber and Edmund Weibel.
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Gerd Binnig was at IBM in Almaden Valley, and was visiting professor at Stanford University.
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In 1985, Gerd Binnig invented the atomic force microscope and Gerd Binnig, Christoph Gerber and Calvin Quate went on to develop a working version of this new microscope for insulating surfaces.
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In 1994 Professor Gerd Binnig founded Definiens which turned in the year 2000 into a commercial enterprise.
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Gerd Binnig developed Cognition Network Technology to analyze images just like the human eye and brain are capable of doing.
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Gerd Binnig became a fellow of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.
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In 1969, Gerd Binnig married Lore Wagler, a psychologist, and they have a daughter born in Switzerland and a son born in California.