Gerd Binnig

Gerd Binnig (born 20 July 1947^[1]) 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.^[2]

Gerd Binnig
Born	(1947-07-20) 20 July 1947 (age 78) Frankfurt am Main, Allied-occupied Germany
Alma mater	J.W. Goethe University, Frankfurt
Known for	Scanning tunneling microscope, atomic force microscope
Awards	Nobel Prize in Physics (1986) The Elliott Cresson Medal (1987) Kavli Prize (2016)
Scientific career
Fields	Physics
Institutions	IBM Zurich Research Laboratory
Doctoral advisor	Werner Martienssen Eckhardt Hoenig
Doctoral students	Franz Josef Giessibl