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# Heinrich Rohrer

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Heinrich Rohrer was a Swiss physicist who shared half of the 1986 Nobel Prize in Physics with Gerd Binnig for the design of the scanning tunneling microscope (STM). The other half of the Prize was awarded to Ernst Ruska. The Heinrich Rohrer Medal is presented triennially by the Surface Science Socie

##  Quotes by Heinrich Rohrer

> [The coming nanometer age can, therefore, also be called the age of interdisciplinarity.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/heinrich-rohrer/the-coming-nanometer-age-can-therefore-also-be-called-the-age-of/)

Heinrich Rohrer

[Age](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/age/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b5b/heinrich-rohrer-69331_age_the-coming-nanometer-age-can-therefore-a_1182294.jpg)

> [I lost all respect for angstroms.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/heinrich-rohrer/i-lost-all-respect-for-angstroms/)

Heinrich Rohrer

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c79/heinrich-rohrer-69331_lost_i-lost-all-respect-for-angstroms-1825084_1825084.jpg)

> [To my knowledge significant progress has never been born of competition. ... In science, being 'better' than others is of little practical…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/heinrich-rohrer/to-my-knowledge-significant-progress-has-never-been-born-of/)

Heinrich Rohrer

[Absurd](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/absurd/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8b4/heinrich-rohrer-69331_absurd_to-my-knowledge-significant-progress-has_2449188.jpg)

> [We live of novelty in science, so whenever you do something new, you have to overcome certain beliefs that this cannot be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/heinrich-rohrer/we-live-of-novelty-in-science-so-whenever-you-do-something-new-you/)

Heinrich Rohrer

[Belief](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/belief/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d82/heinrich-rohrer-69331_belief_we-live-of-novelty-in-science-so-wheneve_2500320.jpg)

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