Gerd Binnig

Gerd Binnig (born 20 July 1947) is a German physicist, most famous for having won the Nobel Prize in Physics jointly with Heinrich Rohrer in 1986 for the invention of the scanning tunneling microscope.

Quotes

 * Doing physics is much more enjoyable than just learning it. Maybe 'doing it' is the right way of learning, at least as far as I am concerned.
 * in his Nobel biography, edited by