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Gerd Binnig

Born on July 20, 1947

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Gerd Karl Binnig (German pronunciation:; born 20 July 1947) is a German physicist. He is most famous for having won the Nobel Prize in Physics jointly with Heinrich Rohrer in 1986 for the invention of the scanning tunneling microscope.

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