AKA Gerd Karl Binnig

Born: 20-Jul-1947
Birthplace: Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Physicist

Nationality: Germany
Executive summary: Co-Inventor, scanning tunneling microscope

Wife: Lore Wagler (psychologist, m. 1969, one daughter, one son)
Daughter: (b. 1984)
Son: (b. 1986)

    University: Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt
    University: PhD, University of Frankfurt (1978)

    Nobel Prize for Physics 1986 (with Heinrich Rohrer and Ernst Ruska)
    National Inventors Hall of Fame
    IBM Research Laboratory, Zürich (1978-)

Author of books:
Aus dem Nichts (1984)

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