Heinrich Rohrer (1933-2013)

Awarded the Prize “for his design of the scanning tunneling microscope.”

Swiss physicist. Rohrer was born in Buchs, St. Gallen, Switzerl on June 6, 1933. He was educated at the Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, where he obtained his Ph.D. in 1960. After two years’ postdoctoral work at Rutgers, New Jersey, he returned to Zurich in 1963 to join the staff of the IBM Research Laboratory in Zürich. Rohrer died on 16 May 2013 in Wollerau, Switzerland.