Pervasive Nanotechnology



Thursday, 16. October 2003 | 8:30 Uhr

Speaker

Heinrich Rohrer

Organisation

Nobel Laureate

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Dr. Rohrer sketches scenarios that could arise from the combination of nanotechnology and Pervasive Computing. The result is pervasive nanotechnology, which constantly and ubiquitously engages in gathering “input” and generating “output”. Dr. Rohrer laid an essential foundation stone for nanotechnology with his discovery of the scanning tunnel microscope.

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Heinrich Rohrer

Heinrich Rohrer (*1933 in St. Gallen) studied Physics at the Swiss Federal College of Technology (ETH) in Zürich. In 1960, Doctorate on Superconductivity. From 1961 to 1963 Rutgers University in New Jersey. From 1963 to 1997 at the IBM Research Laboratories in Rüschlikon (Switzerland).

 

His principal research areas were superconductivity, multicritical phenomena (including Kondo systems, antiferromagnetism) and tunnelling microscopy. In 1974/75 sabbatical year at the University of California in Santa Barbara. In 1996 Nobel Prize for Physics for the construction of the first scanning tunnelling microscope.

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