Heinrich Rohrer

Heinrich Rohrer (born June 6, 1933 in Buchs SG ; † May 16, 2013 in Wollerau ) was a Swiss physicist . In addition to Ernst Ruska, he and Gerd Binnig received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1986 for the development of the scanning tunneling microscope . In the same year he was made an IBM Fellow .

Heinrich Rohrer

Life

After finishing school, Rohrer enrolled in physics at ETH Zurich in the fall of 1951 , “by chance”, as he says in his autobiography . There he completed his basic training in physics with Wolfgang Pauli and Paul Scherrer . From 1955 on, Rohrer worked on his dissertation at Peter Grassmann's chair on pressure and volume effects in superconductors .

In 1963 Rohrer moved to the IBM research center in Rüschlikon , where he and Gerd Binnig, after working on Kondo systems and GdAlO ₃ , developed the scanning tunneling microscope until 1981.

Rohrer has received numerous other honors and honorary doctorates from various universities in Europe, the USA and Asia for his research . In 1988 he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences .

In 2011, the joint nanotechnology center of ETH Zurich and IBM was opened in Rüschlikon, which was named Binnig and Rohrer Nanotechnology Center in honor of the two “fathers of nanotechnology” .

Fonts

Pressure and volume effects in superconductivity data set , in: Helvetia physica , volume 33, 1960, issue 6/7). Zurich 1960, DNB 571497373 (dissertation ETH Zurich 1960, 30 pages (pp. 675-705).
with K. Blazey: Antiferromagnetism and the Magnetic Phase Diagram of GdAlO3. In: Physical Review. 173, 1968, pp. 574-580, doi : 10.1103 / PhysRev.173.574
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. ‌
with G. Binnig, Ch. Gerber, E. Weibel: Tunneling through a controllable vacuum gap. In: Applied Physics Letters. 40, 1982, p. 178, doi : 10.1063 / 1.92999 .
with G. Binnig, Ch. Gerber, E. Weibel: Surface Studies by Scanning Tunneling Microscopy. In: Physical Review Letters. 49, 1982, pp. 57-61, doi : 10.1103 / PhysRevLett.49.57 .

literature

Evelyn Boesch Trüeb: Rohrer, Heinrich. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
Martin Douglas: Heinrich Rohrer, Physicist, Dies at 79; Helped Open Door to Nanotechnology. In: The New York Times . 21st May 2013.
Klaus Andres, Bruno Lüthi , Peter R. Wyder : Obituary. A pioneer in nanotechnology. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung from May 20, 2013
Christoph Gerber : Heinrich Rohrer (1933–2013). In: Nature . Volume 499, No. 7456, 2013, p. 30, doi: 10.1038 / 499030a
Heinrich Rohrer in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)

Web links

Commons : Heinrich Rohrer - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Information from the Nobel Foundation on the 1986 award to Heinrich Rohrer (English)

Heinrich Rohrer in an interview ( memento from August 7, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) with the NZZ Folio magazine

Individual evidence

↑ Swiss Nobel Laureate in Physics Heinrich Rohrer is dead. In: Tages-Anzeiger . May 19, 2013.
^ ^A ^b Peter Rüegg: Nobel laureate Heinrich Rohrer has died. ( Memento from March 6, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) In: ETH Life. 21st May 2013.

personal data
SURNAME	Rohrer, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Swiss physicist
DATE OF BIRTH	June 6, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH	Buchs SG , Switzerland
DATE OF DEATH	May 16, 2013
Place of death	Wollerau , Switzerland

[1] Swiss Nobel Laureate in Physics Heinrich Rohrer is dead. In: Tages-Anzeiger . May 19, 2013.

[eth_life-2] A ^b Peter Rüegg: Nobel laureate Heinrich Rohrer has died. ( Memento from March 6, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) In: ETH Life. 21st May 2013.