Gerd Binnig (born20 July1947) is aGerman physicist, most famous for having won theNobel Prize in Physics jointly withHeinrich Rohrer in 1986 for the invention of thescanning tunneling microscope.

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• Doingphysics is much more enjoyable than just learning it. Maybe 'doing it' is the right way of learning, at least as far as I am concerned.
  • in his Nobel biography, edited byTore Frängsmyr, Gösta Ekspong, Nobelstiftelsen (1993). Physics 1981-1990. World Scientific. p. 383.ISBN 9810207298. 

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