| Heinrich Rohrer  Born: 6-Jun-1933
Birthplace: Buchs, St. Gallen, Switzerland
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Physicist Nationality: Switzerland
Executive summary: Co-Inventor, scanning tunneling microscope Military service: Swiss Army (mountain infantry) Wife: Rose-Marie Egger (m. 1961)
Daughter: Doris
Daughter: Ellen
University: PhD, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Switzerland (1960)
Scholar: Rutgers University (two years, post-doctorate)
Nobel Prize for Physics 1986 (with Gerd Binnig and Ernst Ruska)
IBM IBM Research Laboratory, Rüschlikon, Switzerland (1963-97)
National Inventors Hall of Fame
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