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Born June 6, 1933 • Switzerland
Died May 16, 2013 (aged 79) • Switzerland
Awards And Honors Nobel Prize (1986)
Inventions scanning tunneling microscope
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John Bardeen
American physicist
Binnig, Gerd
Gerd Binnig
German-born physicist
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Charles Hard Townes
American physicist
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George E. Smith
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Walter H. Brattain
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K. Alex Müller
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