HEINRICH ROHRER - AUTOGRAPHED SIGNED PHOTOGRAPH - HFSID 201463

HEINRICH ROHRER
Signed black and white photograph (4x5¾) of the smiling Nobel Prize winner
Photograph signed: "Heini Rohrer". B/w, 4x5¾. Heinrich Rohrer, along with his colleague, Gerd K. Binnig, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1986 for his work in scanning tunneling microscopy. Binnig and Rohrer were recognized for developing the powerful microscopy technique, which can form an image of individual atoms on a metal or semiconductor surface by scanning the tip of a needle over the surface at a height of only a few atomic diameters. They shared the award with German scientist Ernst Ruska, designer of the first electron microscope. Heinrich Rohrer (1933-2013) was educated at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, where he received his bachelor's degree in 1955 and his doctorate degree in 1960. After post-doctoral work at the Swiss Federal Institute and Rutgers University in the U.S., Dr. Rohrer joined IBM's newly formed Zurich Research Laboratory, studying, among other things, Kondo materials and antiferromagnets before turning his attention to scanning tunneling microscopy. Dr. Rohrer was appointed an IBM Fellow in 1986 and was Manager of the Physical Sciences Department at the Zurich Research Laboratory from 1986 to 1988. He retired from IBM in July 1997. Light surface creases and dents (not evident head on). Ink notes (unknown hand) on verso (no show through). Fine condition.