Heinrich Rohrer war ein Schweizer Physiker. Er erhielt neben Ernst Ruska 1986 gemeinsam mit Gerd Binnig für die Entwicklung des Rastertunnelmikroskops den Nobelpreis für Physik. Im selben Jahr wurde er zum IBM Fellow ernannt. Wikipedia
“We had the freedom to make mistakes. That's something very important.”
Interview with Heinrich Rohrer at the Nobel Foundation, Stockholm, 9 April, 2008. The interviewer is Adam Smith, Editor-in-Chief of Nobelprize.org.
Kontext: We had the freedom to make mistakes. That's something very important. Unfortunately, this freedom for scientists gets more and more lost. … Otherwise, you do the common things. You don't dare to do something beyond what everybody else thinks.
Interview with Heinrich Rohrer at the Nobel Foundation, Stockholm, 9 April, 2008. The interviewer is Adam Smith, Editor-in-Chief of Nobelprize.org.
Heinrich Rohrer, in Science - A Part of Our Future, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews Vol. 19, 193, 1994.
“The coming nanometer age can, therefore, also be called the age of interdisciplinarity.”
Heinrich Rohrer explaining how progress in miniaturization implies developing techniques in self-assembling molecular structures, in his Nishina Memorial Lecture at the University of Tokyo, on June 25, 1993. Published in [Nishina memorial lectures: creators of modern physics, Springer, 2008, 506, 4431770550]
Interview http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1986/rohrer-interview.html with Heinrich Rohrer at the Nobel Foundation, Stockholm, 9 April, 2008. The interviewer is Adam Smith, Editor-in-Chief of Nobelprize.org http://nobelprize.org/.
“I lost all respect for angstroms.”
in Autobiography http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1986/rohrer-autobio.html, from Nobel Lectures, Physics 1981-1990, Editor-in-Charge Tore Frängsmyr, Editor Gösta Ekspång, World Scientific Publishing Co., Singapore, 1993
