Nobel Prize in Physics 1986
Photo: Marianne Kischke, Fritz Haber Institut der Max Planck Gesellschaft. Nobel Foundation archive.
Ernst Ruska
Prize share: 1/2
Photo from the Nobel Foundation archive.
Gerd Binnig
Prize share: 1/4
Photo from the Nobel Foundation archive.
Heinrich Rohrer
Prize share: 1/4
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1986 was divided, one half awarded to Ernst Ruska "for his fundamental work in electron optics, and for the design of the first electron microscope", the other half jointly to Gerd Binnig and Heinrich Rohrer "for their design of the scanning tunneling microscope"
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