1982 Two scientists at IBM's Zurich Research Center, Gerd Binnig and Heinrich Rohrer, create the first "scanning tunneling microscope," a device capable of observing how atoms are arrayed on the surface of metal materials, thus allowing people to enter the nano-world.
1982IBM 公司蘇黎世研究所的兩位科學家賓尼和勞爾研製出世界第一台可以觀察到金屬物質表面上單個原子排列的儀器，被稱為「掃瞄穿隧式顯微鏡」（STM），從此人類可以一窺奈米世界的堂奧。