Heinrich Rohrer#
| Sadly, this member passed away. | |
| Membership Number: | 1060 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHYSICS & ENGINEERING SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 1991 |
| Main Country of Residence: | SWITZERLAND |
Heinrich Rohrer passed away May 16, 2013.
Positions Held
- 1997 - present, retired, doing this and that in Science
- 1963 - 1997 Research staff member and IBM Fellow at the IBM Zurich Reserach Laboratory
- 1961 - 1963 Post doc at Rutgers University, NJ
- 1960 Ph.D. Physics, ETH Zurich, CH
Fields of Scholarship
- Mechanical effects and thermal conductivity of superconductors
- Kondo effect and magnetoresistance in high pulsed fields
- Phase transitions and critical phenomena
- Scanning tunneling microscopy and Sci.&Tech. on the nm scale, in particular nano-mechanics
Honours and Awards
- 1984: King Faisal Prize for Science, HP Europhysics Price
- 1986: Nobel prize in Physics
- 1987: Cresson Medal
- Many honorary degrees and honorary memberships
