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Gerd Binnig was born on 20 July, 1947 in Frankfurt am Main, Allied-occupied Germany, is a German physicist (born 1947). Discover Gerd Binnig's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 76 years old?

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Born 20 July, 1947
Birthday 20 July
Birthplace Frankfurt am Main, Allied-occupied Germany
Nationality Germany

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1947

Gerd Binnig (born 20 July 1947 ) is a German physicist.

1969

In 1969, Binnig married Lore Wagler, a psychologist, and they have a daughter born in Switzerland and a son born in California.

His hobbies include reading, swimming, and golf.

1973

Binnig studied physics at the Goethe University Frankfurt, gaining a bachelor's degree in 1973 and remaining there to do a PhD with in Werner Martienssen's group, supervised by Eckhardt Hoenig, and being awarded to him in 1978.

1978

In 1978, Binnig accepted an offer from IBM to join their Zürich research group, where he worked with Heinrich Rohrer, Christoph Gerber and Edmund Weibel.

There they developed the scanning tunneling microscope (STM), an instrument for imaging surfaces at the atomic level.

The Nobel committee described the effect that the invention of the STM had on science, saying that "entirely new fields are opening up for the study of the structure of matter."

The physical principles on which the STM was based were already known before the IBM team developed the STM, but Binnig and his colleagues were the first to solve the significant experimental challenges involved in putting it into effect.

The IBM Zürich team were soon recognized with a number of prizes: the German Physics Prize, the Otto Klung Prize, the Hewlett Packard Prize and the King Faisal Prize.

1985

From 1985–1988, he worked in California.

He was at IBM in Almaden Valley, and was visiting professor at Stanford University.

In 1985, Binnig invented the atomic force microscope (AFM) and Binnig, Christoph Gerber and Calvin Quate went on to develop a working version of this new microscope for insulating surfaces.

1986

He is most famous for having won the Nobel Prize in Physics jointly with Heinrich Rohrer in 1986 for the invention of the scanning tunneling microscope.

Binnig was born in Frankfurt am Main and played in the ruins of the city during his childhood.

His family lived partly in Frankfurt and partly in Offenbach am Main, and he attended school in both cities.

At the age of 10, he decided to become a physicist, but he soon wondered whether he had made the right choice.

He concentrated more on music, playing in a band.

He also started playing the violin at 15 and played in his school orchestra.

In 1986, Binnig and Rohrer shared half of the Nobel Prize in Physics, the other half of the Prize was awarded to Ernst Ruska.

1987

In 1987 Binnig was appointed IBM Fellow.

In the same year, he started the IBM Physics group Munich, working on creativity and atomic force microscopy.

1994

In 1994 Professor Gerd Binnig founded Definiens which turned in the year 2000 into a commercial enterprise.

The company developed Cognition Network Technology to analyze images just like the human eye and brain are capable of doing.

2016

in 2016, Binnig won the Kavli Prize in Nanoscience.

He became a fellow of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.

The Binnig and Rohrer Nanotechnology Center, an IBM-owned research facility in Rüschlikon, Zürich is named after Gerd Binnig and Heinrich Rohrer.