Christoph Gerber

Christoph Gerber, 2013

Christoph Gerber (born May 15, 1942 in Basel ) is a Swiss physicist .

He is currently "Director of Scientific Communication" at the Physics Department at the University of Basel . His work contributed to the invention of the atomic force microscope and the scanning tunneling microscope . From 1966 to 2004 he worked at the IBM Zurich Research Laboratory . His current research interests are biochemical cantilever - sensors and various nanotechnology issues.

Gerber has written numerous scientific publications. He has been granted patents in the fields of low temperature physics as well as scanning tunneling and atomic force microscopy. He has received an honorary doctorate from the University of Basel and honorary professorships at the University of St. Andrews (Scotland) and from the Chinese Academy of Sciences. In 1999 he became a Fellow of the American Physical Society . For 2016 he was awarded one of the three Kavli prizes together with Calvin Quate and Gerd Binnig .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Christoph Gerber: My life in Science. (pdf) kavliprize.org, 2016, accessed on February 19, 2018 . 
2. ^ HP Lang, Ch. Gerber: Cantilever Sensors . In: Bharat Bhushan (Ed.): Handbook of Nanotechnology . 3. Edition. Springer, 2010, ISBN 978-3-642-02524-2 , chap. 16 , p. 427–452 , doi : 10.1007 / 978-3-642-02525-9_15 (English, springer.com [PDF]).
3. ^ Publications by Christoph Gerber. (No longer available online.) In: Universität Basel. Archived from the original on October 10, 2010 ; accessed on March 8, 2018 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
4. ↑ The curriculum vitae of Christoph Gerber. In: unibas.ch. Retrieved February 19, 2018 . 
5. ↑ 2016 Kavli Prize nanoscience. (English). 

Web links

• Prof. emer. Christoph Gerber, Titular Professor of Physics. unibas.ch(English). 
• Homepage Prof. Ch. Gerber at the Cantilever Array Sensor Group . (English).  (Comprehensive job description, curriculum vitae and link to the list of publications)