Christoph Gerber
Christoph Gerber (born 1942) is a Swiss physicist
and professor at the University of Basel. He is the co- Christoph Gerber
inventor of the atomic force microscope (AFM),
together with Gerd Binnig and Calvin Quate.
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 Gerber in 2013
nanoscale science. He is a pioneer in scanning probe
Born May 15, 1942[1]
microscopy, who made major contributions to the
Basel, Switzerland
invention of the scanning tunneling microscope, the
AFM,[2] and AFM techniques in high vacuum and at Known for Atomic force microscope
low temperatures.[3] Scientific career
Institutions IBM Research
He is also the author of several patents. University of Basel
Career
Gerber was born in Basel in 1942 and raised there. After obtaining a degree in mechanical engineering,[4]
he briefly worked for Contraves (today part of Rheinmetall Air Defence) in Stockholm.[5] In 1966, he
returned to Switzerland to work at IBM in Rüschlikon, Switzerland. Here, he worked on a project
developing the scanning transmission electron microscope, for which his colleagues Heinrich Rohrer and
Gerd Binnig would later win the Nobel Prize in Physics.[4]
In 1986, together with Gerd Binnig and Calvin Quate of Stanford University, Gerber published the article
describing the atomic force microscope in Physical Review Letters.[2][5]
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.[6] He is a Fellow of the American Physical
Society and a Fellow of the Institute of Physics UK.
References
1. "Christoph Gerber autobiography.pdf" (https://kavliprize.org/sites/default/files/Christoph%20
Gerber%20autobiography.pdf) (PDF). Kavli Prize. Archived (https://web.archive.org/web/201
80220033903/http://kavliprize.org/sites/default/files/Christoph%20Gerber%20autobiography.
pdf) (PDF) from the original on 20 February 2018. Retrieved 29 January 2022.
2. Binnig, G.; Quate, C. F.; Gerber, Ch. (1986). "Atomic Force Microscope" (https://doi.org/10.1
103%2FPhysRevLett.56.930). Physical Review Letters. 56 (9): 930–933.
Bibcode:1986PhRvL..56..930B (https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1986PhRvL..56..930B).
doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.56.930 (https://doi.org/10.1103%2FPhysRevLett.56.930).
PMID 10033323 (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10033323).
3. Giessibl, F. J.; Gerber, Ch.; Binnig, G. (1991). "A low-temperature atomic force/scanning
tunneling microscope for ultrahigh vacuum" (https://epub.uni-regensburg.de/33834/1/A%20l
ow%E2%80%90temperature%20atomic%20force%20.pdf) (PDF). Journal of Vacuum
Science & Technology B: Microelectronics and Nanometer Structures. 9 (2): 984.
Bibcode:1991JVSTB...9..984G (https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1991JVSTB...9..984G).
doi:10.1116/1.585441 (https://doi.org/10.1116%2F1.585441).
4. Visschedijk, Rik (10 November 2016). " 'Dare to live your wildest dreams' " (https://www.utod
ay.nl/news/63453/Dare_to_live_your_wildest_dreams). utoday.nl. Retrieved 7 October 2024.
5. Caluori, Reto (6 February 2016). "Christoph Gerber to receive the Kavli Prize" (https://idw-o
nline.de/en/news653607). Informationsdienst Wissenschaft. Retrieved 7 October 2024.
6. "Group 2: Astronomy, Physics and Geophysics" (https://web.archive.org/web/201712221626
31/http://english.dnva.no/c40134/artikkel/vis.html?tid=40149). Norwegian Academy of
Science and Letters. Archived from the original (http://english.dnva.no/c40134/artikkel/vis.ht
ml?tid=40149) on 22 December 2017. Retrieved 22 December 2017.
External links
Prof. Ch. Gerber (http://www.cantileversensors.unibas.ch/ChGerber/)
Christoph Gerber (https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=w9b8kbgAAAAJ) publications
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