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Gerd Binnig (Frankfurt , Alemanha , 20 de julho de 1947) foi um físico alemão que teve como maior contribuição para a ciência a criação, junto de Heinrich Rohrer do microscópio de corrente de tunelamento (STM) o qual rendeu aos dois metade do prêmio Nobel de Física de 1986.
Viveu em Frankfurt até seus 31 anos e desde muito jovem já sabia que queria estudar física, mesmo tendo muito apreço pela música.
Obteve seu bacharelado e doutorado em Frankfurt, na Johann Wolfgang Goethe University.
Em 1969, casou-se com Lore Wagler e convencido por sua esposa ingressou, em 1978, num grupo de pesquisa do IBM Research Laboratory, em Zurique . Ao trabalhar no IBM Research Laboratory acabou aproximando-se de Heinrich Rohrer , afinal ambos possuiam áreas de conhecimento similares e interesse em estudar as superfícies.
Em 1981, Binnig e Rohrer criaram o primeiro microscópio de corrente de tunelamento e em 1986 conquistaram metade do prêmio Nobel de Física , divido com Ernst Ruska .
Referências
Nobel de Física (1901 — 2013)
1901 — 1925
Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen •Hendrik Lorentz ePieter Zeeman •Antoine Henri Becquerel ,Pierre Curie eMarie Curie •John William Strutt •Philipp Eduard Anton von Lenard •Joseph John Thomson •Albert Abraham Michelson •Gabriel Lippmann •Guglielmo Marconi eKarl Ferdinand Braun •Johannes Diderik van der Waals •Wilhelm Wien •Nils Gustaf Dalén •Heike Kamerlingh Onnes •Max von Laue •William Henry Bragg eWilliam Lawrence Bragg •Charles Glover Barkla •Max Planck •Johannes Stark •Charles Édouard Guillaume •Albert Einstein •Niels Bohr •Robert Andrews Millikan •Karl Siegbahn •James Franck eGustav Ludwig Hertz
1926 — 1950
Jean Baptiste Perrin •Arthur Holly Compton eCharles Thomson Rees Wilson •Owen Willans Richardson •Louis de Broglie •Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman •Werner Karl Heisenberg •Erwin Schrödinger ePaul Dirac •James Chadwick •Victor Franz Hess eCarl David Anderson •Clinton Davisson eGeorge Paget Thomson •Enrico Fermi •Ernest Orlando Lawrence •Otto Stern •Isidor Isaac Rabi •Wolfgang Pauli •Percy Williams Bridgman •Edward Victor Appleton •Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett •Hideki Yukawa •Cecil Frank Powell
1951 — 1975
John Douglas Cockcroft eErnest Thomas Sinton Walton •Felix Bloch eEdward Mills Purcell •Frits Zernike •Max Born eWalther Bothe •Willis Eugene Lamb ePolykarp Kusch •William Bradford Shockley ,John Bardeen eWalter Houser Brattain •Chen Ning Yang eTsung-Dao Lee •Pavel Cherenkov ,Illia Mikhailovich Frank eIgor Yevgenyevich Tamm •Emilio Gino Segrè eOwen Chamberlain •Donald Arthur Glaser •Robert Hofstadter eRudolf Mössbauer •Lev Landau •Eugene Paul Wigner ,Maria Goeppert-Mayer eJ. Hans D. Jensen •Charles Hard Townes ,Nicolay Basov eAleksandr Prokhorov •Shin'ichiro Tomonaga ,Julian Schwinger eRichard Feynman •Alfred Kastler •Hans Bethe •Luis Walter Alvarez •Murray Gell-Mann •Hannes Alfvén eLouis Eugène Félix Néel •Dennis Gabor •John Bardeen ,Leon Neil Cooper eJohn Robert Schrieffer •Leo Esaki ,Ivar Giaever eBrian David Josephson •Martin Ryle eAntony Hewish •Aage Niels Bohr ,Ben Roy Mottelson eLeo James Rainwater
1976 — 2000
Burton Richter eSamuel Chao Chung Ting •Philip Warren Anderson ,Nevill Francis Mott eJohn Hasbrouck Van Vleck •Pyotr Kapitsa ,Arno Allan Penzias eRobert Woodrow Wilson •Sheldon Lee Glashow ,Abdus Salam eSteven Weinberg •James Watson Cronin eVal Logsdon Fitch •Nicolaas Bloembergen ,Arthur Schawlow eKai Siegbahn •Kenneth G. Wilson •Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar eWilliam Alfred Fowler •Carlo Rubbia eSimon van der Meer •Klaus von Klitzing •Ernst Ruska ,Gerd Binnig eHeinrich Rohrer •Johannes Georg Bednorz eKarl Alexander Müller •Leon Max Lederman ,Melvin Schwartz eJack Steinberger •Norman Foster Ramsey ,Hans Georg Dehmelt eWolfgang Paul •Jerome Isaac Friedman ,Henry Way Kendall eRichard Edward Taylor •Pierre-Gilles de Gennes •Georges Charpak •Russell Alan Hulse eJoseph Hooton Taylor •Bertram Neville Brockhouse eClifford Glenwood Shull •Martin Lewis Perl eFrederick Reines •David Morris Lee ,Douglas Dean Osheroff eRobert Coleman Richardson •Steven Chu ,Claude Cohen-Tannoudji eWilliam Daniel Phillips •Robert Betts Laughlin ,Horst Ludwig Störmer eDaniel Chee Tsui •Gerardus 't Hooft eMartinus J. G. Veltman •Zhores Alferov ,Herbert Kroemer eJack Kilby
2001 — 2013
Eric Allin Cornell ,Carl Wieman eWolfgang Ketterle •Raymond Davis Jr. ,Masatoshi Koshiba eRiccardo Giacconi •Alexei Alexeevich Abrikosov ,Vitaly Ginzburg e Anthony Leggett •David Gross ,Hugh David Politzer eFrank Wilczek •Roy Glauber ,John Lewis Hall eTheodor Hänsch •John Mather eGeorge Fitzgerald Smoot III •Albert Fert ePeter Grünberg •Yoichiro Nambu ,Makoto Kobayashi eToshihide Masukawa •Charles Kao ,Willard Boyle eGeorge Smith •Andre Geim eKonstantin Novoselov •Saul Perlmutter , Adam Riess e Brian Schmidt •Serge Haroche e David Wineland •François Englert e Peter Higgs
Medalha Elliott Cresson (1875 — 1997)
1875 — 1900
1870s
1880s
1881: William Woodnut Griscom · 1885: Cyprien Chabot e Frederick Siemens · 1886: Patrick Bernard Delany , Thaddeus S. C. Lowe , Ott & Brewer , Pratt & Whitney , R. H. Ramsay e Liberty Walkup · 1887: Charles F. Albert , Hugo Bilgram , Alfred H. Cowles , Eugene H. Cowles e Thomas Shaw · 1889: Edward Alfred Cowper , Ottmar Mergenthaler , T. Hart Robertson e George Frederick Simonds · 1890: J. B. Hammond , Herman Hollerith e Mayer Hayes & Co.
1890s
1891: Stockton Bates , James H. Bevington , Bradley Allen Fiske , Tinius Olsen , Edwin F. Shaw , Samuel Matthews Vauclain e George M. Von Culin · 1892: Philip H. Holmes e Henry M. Howe · 1893: Clifford H. Batchellor , Frederic Eugene Ives , George E. Marks e Paul von Jankó · 1894: Nikola Tesla · 1895: Henry M. Howe , James Peckover e Lester Allan Pelton · 1896: Patrick Bernard Delany e Tolbert Lanston · 1897: Hamilton Castner , Elisha Gray , Charles Francis Jenkins , Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen e Joseph Wilckes · 1898: Wilbur Olin Atwater , Thomas Corscaden , Clemens Hirschel , Henri Moissan e Edward Bennett Rosa · 1900: American Cotton Company , Louis Edward Levy , Pencoyd Iron Works , Serviço Geológico dos Estados Unidos e Carl Auer von Welsbach
1901 — 1950
1900s
1901: Rudolf Diesel , John S. Forbes , L. M. Haupt , Mason and Hamlin e A. G. Waterhouse · 1902: C. E. Acker , Frederick Taylor e Maunsel White · 1903: G. H. Clam , J. L. Ferrell , Wilson Lindsley Gill , Victor Goldschmidt e Frank J. Sprague · 1904: James Mapes Dodge , Wilson Lindsley Gill , Hans Goldschmidt , L. E. Levy , L.D. Lovekin , A. E. Outerbridge, Jr. e J. C. Parker · 1905: Elisha Gray e M. I. Pupin · 1906: American Paper Bottle Company e William J. Hammer · 1907: Baldwin Locomotive Works , J. L. Borsch , J. Allen Heany , F. Philips e Edward R. Taylor · 1908: Romeyn Beck Hough e Anatole Mallet · 1909: Marie Curie , Pierre Curie , Wolfgang Gaede , James Gayley , Auguste e Louis Lumière , George Owen Squier , Benjamin Talbot ,W. V. Turner , Underwood Typewriter Company , Alexis Vernasz e H. A. Wise Wood · 1910: Automatic Electric Company , John A. Brashear , Peter Cooper Hewitt , John Fritz , Robert Hadfield , Ernest Rutherford ,Joseph John Thomson , Edward Weston e Harvey W. Wiley
1910s
1912: Alexander Graham Bell , William Crookes , Alfred Noble , Edward Morley , Albert Abraham Michelson , Henry Enfield Roscoe , Samuel Wesley Stratton , Elihu Thomson e Adolf von Baeyer · 1913: Emil Berliner , Emile Fischer , William Ramsay , Isham Randolph , John William Strutt , Albert Sauveur e Charles Proteus Steinmetz · 1914: J. M. von Eder , Carl von Linde , Edgar Fahs Smith e Irmãos Wright · 1915: Michael Joseph Owens · 1916: American Telephone & Telegraph , Byron E. Eldred e Robert Gans · 1917: Edwin Fitch Northrup · 1918: Isaac Newton Lewis · 1920: William Le Roy Emmet
1920s
1930s
1940s
1951 — 1997
1950s
1960s
1970s
1980s
1990s
Alemão
Nobel de Física (1986), Medalha Elliott Cresson (1987), National Inventors Hall of Fame (1994)
