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Gerd Binnig

1947 - Today

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Gerd Binnig (German pronunciation: [ˈɡɛʁt ˈbɪnɪç] ; born 20 July 1947) is a German physicist. 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Gerd Binnig is the 165th most popular physicist (up from 167th in 2019), the 425th most popular biography from Germany (up from 563rd in 2019) and the 25th most popular German Physicist.

Gerd Binnig is most famous for his invention of the Scanning Tunneling Microscope.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Gerd Binnig ranks 165 out of 851. Before him are Hans Georg Dehmelt, Johann Jakob Balmer, Joseph Henry, Hippolyte Fizeau, Augustin-Jean Fresnel, and Georges Charpak. After him are Ernst Abbe, Paul Langevin, Hideki Yukawa, François Englert, George E. Smith, and Polykarp Kusch.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1947, Gerd Binnig ranks 31. Before him are Herman Van Rompuy, Glenn Close, Robert Kiyosaki, Ali Abdullah Saleh, Salman Rushdie, and Takeshi Kitano. After him are Françoise Barré-Sinoussi, Paco de Lucía, France Gall, Michael Levitt, Michael Porter, and Josep Borrell.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Gerd Binnig ranks 425 out of 7,253. Before him are Karl Haushofer (1869), Alexander Grothendieck (1928), Karen Horney (1885), Christian III of Denmark (1503), Friedrich Carl von Savigny (1779), and Emil Nolde (1867). After him are Otto Dix (1891), Levi Strauss (1829), Manfred Eigen (1927), Sepp Maier (1944), Ernst Abbe (1840), and Otto Loewi (1873).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Germany

Among physicists born in Germany, Gerd Binnig ranks 25. Before him are Carl Zeiss (1816), James Franck (1882), Arno Allan Penzias (1933), Rudolf Mössbauer (1929), George Paget Thomson (1892), and Hans Georg Dehmelt (1922). After him are Ernst Abbe (1840), Polykarp Kusch (1911), Julius von Mayer (1814), Herbert Kroemer (1928), Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742), and Hans Geiger (1882).

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