1933 - 2013
Heinrich Rohrer (6 June 1933 – 16 May 2013) 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 Society of Japan with IBM Research – Zurich, Swiss Embassy in Japan, and Ms. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Heinrich Rohrer has received more than 212,865 page views. His biography is available in 64 different languages on Wikipedia. Heinrich Rohrer is the 118th most popular physicist (up from 154th in 2019), the 40th most popular biography from Switzerland (up from 58th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Swiss Physicist.
Heinrich Rohrer is most famous for his work in the field of scanning tunneling microscopy, which he co-invented.
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Among physicists, Heinrich Rohrer ranks 118 out of 717. Before him are Julius von Mayer, Anders Jonas Ångström, George Paget Thomson, Ernst Abbe, Aage Bohr, and Auguste Piccard. After him are François Arago, Walter Houser Brattain, C. F. Powell, Pavel Cherenkov, Owen Chamberlain, and Leo Szilard.
1814 - 1878
HPI: 66.98
Rank: 112
1814 - 1874
HPI: 66.97
Rank: 113
1892 - 1975
HPI: 66.93
Rank: 114
1840 - 1905
HPI: 66.92
Rank: 115
1922 - 2009
HPI: 66.81
Rank: 116
1884 - 1962
HPI: 66.79
Rank: 117
1933 - 2013
HPI: 66.73
Rank: 118
1786 - 1853
HPI: 66.65
Rank: 119
1902 - 1987
HPI: 66.61
Rank: 120
1903 - 1969
HPI: 66.61
Rank: 121
1904 - 1990
HPI: 66.52
Rank: 122
1920 - 2006
HPI: 66.47
Rank: 123
1898 - 1964
HPI: 66.33
Rank: 124
Among people born in 1933, Heinrich Rohrer ranks 25. Before him are Jalal Talabani, Susan Sontag, Just Fontaine, Lina Medina, Paul Biya, and Krzysztof Penderecki. After him are Costa-Gavras, Elinor Ostrom, Arno Allan Penzias, Wilbur Smith, Richard Rogers, and Kim Novak. Among people deceased in 2013, Heinrich Rohrer ranks 17. Before him are Paul Walker, Tom Clancy, Giuliano Gemma, Mohammed Omar, Joan Fontaine, and Ronald Coase. After him are Lou Reed, Giulio Andreotti, Christian de Duve, Djalma Santos, Robert Edwards, and Robert Coleman Richardson.
1933 - 2017
HPI: 68.93
Rank: 19
1933 - 2004
HPI: 68.67
Rank: 20
1933 - 2023
HPI: 68.59
Rank: 21
1933 - Present
HPI: 68.13
Rank: 22
1933 - Present
HPI: 66.99
Rank: 23
1933 - 2020
HPI: 66.98
Rank: 24
1933 - 2013
HPI: 66.73
Rank: 25
1933 - Present
HPI: 66.45
Rank: 26
1933 - 2012
HPI: 66.43
Rank: 27
1933 - Present
HPI: 66.16
Rank: 28
1933 - 2021
HPI: 65.77
Rank: 29
1933 - 2021
HPI: 65.74
Rank: 30
1933 - Present
HPI: 65.52
Rank: 31
1973 - 2013
HPI: 67.95
Rank: 11
1947 - 2013
HPI: 67.86
Rank: 12
1938 - 2013
HPI: 67.79
Rank: 13
1962 - 2013
HPI: 67.66
Rank: 14
1917 - 2013
HPI: 67.39
Rank: 15
1910 - 2013
HPI: 67.04
Rank: 16
1933 - 2013
HPI: 66.73
Rank: 17
1942 - 2013
HPI: 66.54
Rank: 18
1919 - 2013
HPI: 66.41
Rank: 19
1917 - 2013
HPI: 66.33
Rank: 20
1929 - 2013
HPI: 65.63
Rank: 21
1925 - 2013
HPI: 65.57
Rank: 22
1937 - 2013
HPI: 65.54
Rank: 23
Among people born in Switzerland, Heinrich Rohrer ranks 40 out of 876. Before him are Adelaide of Italy (931), Karl Barth (1886), Johannes Itten (1888), Eugen Bleuler (1857), Emil Theodor Kocher (1841), and Auguste Piccard (1884). After him are Benjamin Constant (1767), Henry Fuseli (1741), Hermann Rorschach (1884), Albert I of Germany (1255), Robert Walser (1878), and Angelica Kauffman (1741).
931 - 999
HPI: 67.71
Rank: 34
1886 - 1968
HPI: 67.61
Rank: 35
1888 - 1967
HPI: 67.08
Rank: 36
1857 - 1939
HPI: 66.84
Rank: 37
1841 - 1917
HPI: 66.80
Rank: 38
1884 - 1962
HPI: 66.79
Rank: 39
1933 - 2013
HPI: 66.73
Rank: 40
1767 - 1830
HPI: 66.62
Rank: 41
1741 - 1825
HPI: 66.59
Rank: 42
1884 - 1922
HPI: 66.49
Rank: 43
1255 - 1308
HPI: 66.49
Rank: 44
1878 - 1956
HPI: 66.48
Rank: 45
1741 - 1807
HPI: 66.27
Rank: 46
Among physicists born in Switzerland, Heinrich Rohrer ranks 3. Before him are Charles Édouard Guillaume (1861) and Auguste Piccard (1884). After him are Felix Bloch (1905), Johann Jakob Balmer (1825), K. Alex Müller (1927), Ami Argand (1750), Walter H. Schottky (1886), Walther Ritz (1878), Raoul Pictet (1846), Jakob II Bernoulli (1759), and Alfred Kleiner (1849).
1861 - 1938
HPI: 68.46
Rank: 1
1884 - 1962
HPI: 66.79
Rank: 2
1933 - 2013
HPI: 66.73
Rank: 3
1905 - 1983
HPI: 65.54
Rank: 4
1825 - 1898
HPI: 65.09
Rank: 5
1927 - 2023
HPI: 62.79
Rank: 6
1750 - 1803
HPI: 56.70
Rank: 7
1886 - 1976
HPI: 56.06
Rank: 8
1878 - 1909
HPI: 52.37
Rank: 9
1846 - 1929
HPI: 51.78
Rank: 10
1759 - 1789
HPI: 51.01
Rank: 11
1849 - 1916
HPI: 49.51
Rank: 12