Who Won the 1987
Nobel Prize Physics

Corrections: May 25, 2013
New York Times
An obituary on Wednesday about the Nobel Prize-winning physicist Heinrich Rohrer misidentified the scientists who wrote the letters “I.B.M.” in xenon atoms on a nickel crystal. They are Donald M. Eigler and Erhard Schweizer — not Dr. Rohrer and Gerd ...

JHU researchers account for magnetic field misbehavior in solar flares
The Hub at Johns Hopkins
The flux-freezing theorem was developed 70 years ago by Hannes Alfvén, who later won a Nobel Prize in physics for closely related work. His principle states that magnetic lines of force are carried along in a moving fluid like strands of thread cast ...

Nobel Prize-Winning Physicist Henrich Rohrer Dies at 79
Nature World News
Switzerland's Heinrich Rohrer smiles with his medal as he leaves the royal monastery of Yuste after a ceremony in which he became a member of the European Academy of Yuste June 25. Rohrer was awarded the Nobel prize in physics in 1986. (Photo ...

Heinrich Rohrer, Nobel Prize-winning physicist, dies at 79
Washington Post
Heinrich Rohrer, a Swiss physicist and one of the two Nobel Prize-winning scientists who helped make possible the modern field of nanotechnology by inventing a microscope that could readily see individual atoms, died May 16. He was 79. The Swiss ...