Christoph Gerber
Photo of Gerber in 2013
Born (1942-05-15) May 15, 1942[1]
Basel, Switzerland
Known forAtomic force microscope
Scientific career
InstitutionsIBM Research
University of Basel

Christoph Gerber (born 1942) is a titular professor at the Department of Physics, University of Basel, Switzerland. He is the co-inventor of the atomic force microscope (AFM).

He was a founding member and director for scientific communication of the NCCR (National Center of Competence in Research Nanoscale Science). He was formerly a research staff member in nanoscale science at the IBM Research Laboratory in Rueschlikon, Switzerland, and has served as a project leader in various programs of the Swiss National Science Foundation.

For the past 40 years, his research has been focused on nanoscale science. He is a pioneer in scanning probe microscopy, who made major contributions to the invention of the scanning tunneling microscope, the AFM,[2] and AFM techniques in high vacuum and at low temperatures.[3]

He is also the author of several patents.

Awards

His work has been recognized with multiple honorary degrees and various awards and appeared in numerous articles in daily press and TV coverage. 2016 he has been awarded the Kavli Prize in Nanoscience together with Gerd Binnig and Calvin Quate for the scanning force Microscope. He became a fellow of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.[4] He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and a Fellow of the Institute of Physics UK.

References

  1. ↑ "Christoph Gerber autobiography.pdf" (PDF). Kavli Prize. Archived (PDF) from the original on 20 February 2018. Retrieved 29 January 2022.
  2. ↑ Binnig, G.; Quate, C. F.; Gerber, Ch. (1986). "Atomic Force Microscope". Physical Review Letters. 56 (9): 930–933. Bibcode:1986PhRvL..56..930B. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.56.930. PMID 10033323.
  3. ↑ Giessibl, F. J. (1991). "A low-temperature atomic force/scanning tunneling microscope for ultrahigh vacuum" (PDF). Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology B: Microelectronics and Nanometer Structures. 9 (2): 984. Bibcode:1991JVSTB...9..984G. doi:10.1116/1.585441.
  4. ↑ "Group 2: Astronomy, Physics and Geophysics". Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. Archived from the original on 22 December 2017. Retrieved 22 December 2017.
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