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Gerd Binnig

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Also known as Gerd Karl Binnig, Binnig, Gerd K. Binnig

German physicist

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Gender
Male
Origin
Germany
Active from
1948-04
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  • Doing physics is much more enjoyable than just learning it. Maybe 'doing it' is the right way of learning, at least as far as I am concerned.

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date of birth
1947-07-20
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birth name
Gerd Karl Binnig
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IPA transcription
ˈɡɛʁt ˈbɪnɪç
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Gerd Karl Binnig ( German pronunciation: [ˈɡɛʁt ˈbɪnɪç] ; born 20 July 1947) 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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