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The Nobel Prize in

Physics 1986

Prize Amount: 2,000,000 SEK

Laureates

Ernst Ruska

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"for his fundamental work in electron optics, and for the design of the first electron microscope"

Gerd Binnig

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"for their design of the scanning tunneling microscope"

Heinrich Rohrer

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"for their design of the scanning tunneling microscope"