The Heinrich Rohrer Medal is presented triennially by the Surface Science Society of Japan with IBM Research – Zurich, Swiss Embassy in Japan, and Ms.
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10 Facts About Heinrich Rohrer
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Heinrich Rohrer was born in Buchs, St Gallen half an hour after his twin sister.
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Heinrich Rohrer enjoyed a carefree country childhood until the family moved to Zurich in 1949.
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Heinrich Rohrer enrolled in the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in 1951, where he was student of Wolfgang Pauli and Paul Scherrer.
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Heinrich Rohrer measured the length changes of superconductors at the magnetic-field-induced superconducting transition, a project begun by Jørgen Lykke Olsen.
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Heinrich Rohrer's studies were interrupted by his military service in the Swiss mountain infantry.
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Heinrich Rohrer then began studying magnetic phase diagrams, which eventually brought him into the field of critical phenomena.
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Heinrich Rohrer was appointed IBM Fellow in 1986, and led the physics department of the research lab from 1986 until 1988.
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Heinrich Rohrer was elected as an honourable member of the Swiss Physical Society in 1990 and an honorary academician of Academia Sinica in 2008.
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Heinrich Rohrer died of natural causes on 16 May 2013 at his home in Wollerau, Switzerland, aged 79.
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