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Heinrich Rohrer Quotes

1933–2013 Switzerland

Heinrich Rohrer (born 6 June 1933 - 16 May 2013) is a Swiss physicist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physics for 1986 with Gerd Binnig for their design of the scanning tunneling microscope (STM).

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The coming nanometer age can, therefore, also be called the age of interdisciplinarity.

We live of novelty in science. So when you do something new, you have to overcome certain beliefs that it cannot be done, that it's not interesting and so on.

To my knowledge significant progress has never been born of competition. … In science, being 'better' than others is of little practical value. Examples of how absurd the idea of scientific competition is are abundant.

I lost all respect for angstroms.

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