Gerd Binnig
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Gerd Karl Binnig (born July 20, 1947 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a German physicist and Nobel Prize winner .
Life
In 1966 Gerd Binnig graduated from the Rudolf Koch School in Offenbach am Main . In 1978 he was in Physics with a thesis on "tunneling spectroscopy of superconducting (SN) x" at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main doctorate .
Binnig developed the scanning tunneling microscope with the Swiss Heinrich Rohrer in the IBM research laboratory near Zurich in 1981 . In 1983 he received the Otto Klung Prize for this as the best young German scientist in physics.
In 1986, Binnig and Rohrer, together with Ernst Ruska, received the Nobel Prize in Physics for the development of the scanning tunneling microscope. Gerd Binnig then developed the atomic force microscope . From 1988 to 1994 he headed the IBM physics group in Munich at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and worked with his doctoral students Franz Josef Gießibl and Frank Ohnesorge on the further development of atomic force microscopy.
In 1994 Binnig founded the company Delphi2 Creative Technologies GmbH , which was later renamed Definiens GmbH , today Definiens AG , based in Munich. From it went Definiens Imaging GmbH appears with the software eCognition achievements in object-based image classification adduced. This was used to analyze remote sensing data and also image data from medical imaging processes, for example to detect cancer cells in tissue samples. Definiens was sold to AstraZeneca in 2014 for $ 150 million .
Awards and honors
- 1983 Otto Klung Prize
- 1986 Nobel Prize in Physics for the development of the scanning tunneling microscope
- 1987 Large Cross of Merit with Star and Shoulder Ribbon of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
- 1987 member of the National Academy of Sciences
- 1992 Bavarian Order of Merit
- 1998 Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art
- 2011 The Binnig and Rohrer Nanotechnology Center in Rüschlikon / ZH was u. a. named after him.
- 2016 Kavli Prize
Works (selection)
- Patent CH643397 : Scanning apparatus for surface analysis using vacuum-tunnel effect at cryogenic temperatures (device for grid-like surface analysis using the vacuum tunnel effect at cryogenic temperatures). Registered on September 20, 1979 , applicant: IBM, inventor: Gerd Binnig, Heinrich Rohrer .
- Gerd Binnig, Heinrich Rohrer, C. Gerber and E. Weibel: Tunneling through a Controllable Vacuum Gap , Appl. Phys. Lett. , 40: 178 (1982).
- G. Binnig, H. Rohrer, C. Gerber, E. Weibel: Surface studies by scanning tunneling microscopy. In: Phys. Rev. Lett. 49/1, pp. 57-61 (1982).
- Out of nowhere. About the creativity of nature and people. (1997), ISBN 3-492-21486-X .
See also
Web links
- Literature by and about Gerd Binnig in the catalog of the German National Library
- Information from the Nobel Foundation on the 1986 award to Gerd Binnig (English)
- “There is no system that could calculate the world”. Large interview on August 18, 2010
- Educational game about the scanning tunneling microscope (English)
- Definiens AG '
- Interview with Gerd Binnig in the NZZ Folio magazine
- Astra Zeneca buys Definiens
Individual evidence
- ↑ " Finding the universal formula would appeal to me" - Interview with Gerd Binnig , in: PM Magazin 05/2014, pp. 36–39, here p. 38.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Binnig, Gerd |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Binnig, Gerd Karl (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German physicist and Nobel Prize winner |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 20, 1947 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Frankfurt am Main |