Ernst Ruska - Nobel Prize in Physics — 1986
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Ernst Ruska

Prize
Nobel Prize in Physics — 1986
for his fundamental work in electron optics, and for the design of the first electron microscope
Together with: Gerd Binnig, Heinrich Rohrer
Citizenship
GermanyGermanyallied-occupied Germanyallied-occupied GermanyWeimar RepublicWeimar RepublicGerman EmpireGerman EmpireNazi GermanyNazi Germany
Languages
German
date of birth
12/25/1906
place of birth
Heidelberg
date of death
5/27/1988
place of death
West Berlin
Lived
81 years

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occupation
  • electrical engineer
  • university teacher
  • physicist
  • inventor
field of work
  • electron optics
educated at
  • Technical University of Munich
  • Kurfürst-Friedrich-Gymnasium (Heidelberg)
  • Technische Universität Berlin
employer
  • Freie Universität Berlin
  • Max Planck Society
  • Technische Universität Berlin
member of
  • German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
    • start time: 1966
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