DigiNepal
Heinrich Rohrer
NIMSoffice · CC BY-SA 3.0
Suggest a better photo · Report

Heinrich Rohrer

Swiss physicist (1933-2013)

नेपालीमा पढ्नुहोस् · हिंदी में पढ़ें

  • नेपाली · English · हिंदीRead in your language
  • CitedEvery fact sourced
  • Ad-freeNo ads, no tracking

Heinrich Rohrer was a Swiss physicist who shared half of the 1986 Nobel Prize in Physics with Gerd Binnig for the design of the scanning tunneling microscope (STM). The other half of the Prize was awarded to Ernst Ruska. The Heinrich Rohrer Medal is presented triennially by the Surface Science Society of Japan with IBM Research – Zurich, Swiss Embassy in Japan, and Ms. Rohrer in his memory. The medal is not to be confused with the Heinrich Rohrer Award presented at the Nano Seoul 2020 conference.

Quick facts

Born
wd
Place of birth
Buchs wd
Died
wd
Place of death
Wollerau wd
Citizenship
Switzerland wd
Occupation
physicist wd
Education
ETH Zurich wd
Spouse
Rose-Marie Egger wd

Awards wd

  • IBM Fellow
  • King Faisal Prize in Science (1984)
  • EPS Europhysics Prize (1984)
  • Nobel Prize in Physics (1986)
  • Elliott Cresson Medal (1987)
  • National Inventors Hall of Fame (1994)
  • honorary doctorate of the University of the Mediterranean - Aix Marseille II (1988)

Questions

When was Heinrich Rohrer born?
Heinrich Rohrer was born on 6 June 1933 in Buchs.
Where did Heinrich Rohrer study?
Heinrich Rohrer was educated at ETH Zurich.

Sources

  1. Wikipedia (English): Heinrich Rohrer · CC BY-SA 4.0
  2. Wikidata item Q123029 · CC0 1.0
  3. Image: Rohrer (cropped).jpg by NIMSoffice (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Last updated · facts checked 4 November 2026

Cite this page

"Heinrich Rohrer". DigiNepal. Last updated 1 November 2026. https://diginpl.com/people/heinrich-rohrer. Retrieved 5 November 2026.

Machine-readable versions: JSON · Markdown

Text from the Wikipedia article Heinrich Rohrer, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page's text is shared under the same licence. Facts from Wikidata (CC0). Image: Rohrer (cropped).jpg — NIMSoffice, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Is this you, or do you work in this person's office? Claim this profile

← People