Gerd Binnig and Heinrich Rohrer

Gerd Binning born: July 20, 1947

Heinrich Rohrer born: June 6, 1933

Gerd Binning and Heinrich Rohrer are both known for their collaborative effort for the invention of the Scanning Tunneling Microscope in the IBM Research Laboratory in Zurich, Switzerland. They were awarded half of the 1986 Nobel Prize for physics for their achievement.

In 1989, Binning published Aus dem Nichts (Out of Nothing), in which he stated that creativity grew from disorder.

References

"Gerd Binnig " Wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerd_Binnig

"Gerd Binnig – Autobiography." NobelPrize.org. 25 Nov. 2005 http://nobelprize.org/physics/laureates/1986/binnig-autobio.html