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Heinrich Rohrer, 1933-2013

rohrer and binning with the STM

Dr. Heinrich Rohrer, IBM Fellow, Nobel Laureate and co-inventor of the scanning tunneling microscope, passed away on the evening of May 16, 2013.

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