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Roh·rer   (rō'rər)   
Swiss physicist. He shared a 1986 Nobel Prize for designing an electron microscope able to scan individual atoms.
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Rohrer, Heinrich

Swiss physicist who, with Gerd Binnig, received half of the 1986 Nobel Prize for Physics for their joint invention of the scanning tunneling microscope. (Ernst Ruska received the other half of the prize.

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