What is Heinrich Rohrer?
{{nobelprize|Physics}} [[File:rohrer.jpg|thumb|right|210px|Rohrer in June 2008]] '''Heinrich Rohrer''' (6 June 1933 &ndash; 16 May 2013) was a [[Switzerland|Swiss]] [[physicist]]. He shared half of the 1986 [[Nobel Prize in Physics]] with [[Gerd Binnig]] for the design of the [[scanning tunneling microscope]] (STM). (The other half of the Prize was awarded to [[Ernst Ruska]].)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1986/rohrer.html|title=The Nobel Prize in Physics 1986, Heinrich Rohrer|accessdate=20 February 2013|archive-date=21 April 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130421043138/http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1986/rohrer.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> Rohrer was born on 6 June 1933 in [[Buchs, St. Gallen]], Switzerland. He was raised in [[Zürich]], Switzerland. Rohrer studied at [[ Swiss Federal Institute of Technology]]. He was elected a member of the [[Academia Europaea]] in 1991.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ae-info.org/ae/Member/Rohrer_Heinrich |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190328104806/https://www.ae-info.org/ae/Member/Rohrer_Heinrich |title=Heinrich Rohrer |publisher=Academia Europaea |archive-date=28 March 2019}}</ref> He was never married. Rohrer died on 16 May 2013 in [[Wollerau]], Switzerland after battling a disease, aged 79.<ref>[http://www.tagesanzeiger.ch/wissen/technik/Schweizer-PhysikNobelpreistraeger-Heinrich-Rohrer-ist-tot/story/18945021 Schweizer Physik Nobel preistraeger Heinrich-Rohrer ist tot] at tagesanzeiger.ch.com</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} {{Commons category}} {{Wikiquote}} {{Nobel Prize in Physics}} {{authority control}} {{bio-stub}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Rohrer, Heinrich}} [[Category:1933 births]] [[Category:2013 deaths]] [[Category:Swiss physicists]] [[Category:Swiss Nobel Prize winners]] [[Category:Members of Academia Europaea]] [[Category:People from the canton of St. Gallen]]