Scientists in Focus brings attention to the people whose ideas, methods, or experiments shaped modern nanoscience. Instead of celebrating individual moments of discovery, this series examines how ...

Gerd Binnig shared The Kavli Prize in Nanoscience in 2016 for inventing the atomic force microscope. What transformative impact has this invention had on nanoscience? This podcast was produced for The ...

The history of microscopes began about a millennium ago, with the use of glass spheres to magnify objects. More than 500 years later, the father and son team Zaccharias and Hans Janssen experimented ...

There are numerous examples in science in which a radically different conceptual approach to solving a problem at hand has resulted in a major scientific breakthrough. Such is the case for scanning ...

The electron microscope revolutionized biology in the 1930s by providing magnifications thousands of times higher than that of light microscopes, allowing scientists to discern the inner workings of ...

In July 1985, three physicists—Gerd Binnig of the IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, Christoph Gerber of the University of Basel, and Calvin Quate of Stanford University—puzzled over a problem while ...

Two scientists at IBM's Zurich Research Laboratory, Gerd Binnig and Heinrich Rohrer, won the 1986 Nobel Prize in physics for inventing the scanning tunneling microscope in the early 1980s. But that ...

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