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Heinrich Rohrer

Heinrich Rohrer
Swiss physicist Heinrich Rohrer won the 1986 Nobel Prize in physics. Rohrer shared credit for inventing the scanning tunneling microscope, a powerful microscope capable of producing three-dimensional images of materials at the atomic level.
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