| LC control no. | no2008071937 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Rohrer, Heinrich, 1933-2013 |
| Birth date | 19330606 |
| Death date | [2013-05-16,2010-05-17] |
| Place of birth | Buchs, Saint Gall, Switzerland |
| Place of death | Wollerau, Switzerland |
| Field of activity | Scanning tunneling microscopy |
| Affiliation | International Business Machines Corporation |
| Profession or occupation | Physicist Nobel Prize winner |
| Found in | Druck- und Volumeneffekte in der Supraleitung, 1960: t.p. (Heinrich Rohrer; dipl. Phys. ETH von Buchs (St. Gallen)) Nobelprize.org, viewed May 13, 2008 (Heinrich Rohrer, The Nobel Prize in Physics 1986; b. June 6, 1933 in Buchs, St. Gallen, Switzerland) New York times (online), viewed May 22, 2013 (in obituary published May 21: Heinrich Rohrer; b. June 6, 1933, Buchs, St. Gallen, Switzerland; d. Thursday night or early Friday morning [May 16 or 17, 2013], Wollerau, Switzerland, aged 79; shared the 1986 Nobel Prize in Physics for inventing the scanning tunneling microscope, which made it possible to see individual atoms and move them around, an achievement that led to vastly faster computing and greatly advanced molecular biology) German Wikipedia, viewed May 22, 2013 (Heinrich Rohrer; b. June 6, 1933, Buchs SG; d. May 16, 2013, Wollerau; Swiss physicist) |
| Associated language | ger |
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