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Five employees of I.B.M. have won Nobel Prizes. For which discoveries?

Question #144183. Asked by chabenao1.
Last updated May 21 2017.
Originally posted May 21 2017 1:56 AM.

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The five employees won Nobel Prizes in Physics for:

- tunnelling phenomena in semiconductors and superconductors
- scanning tunnelling microscope
- research in superconductivity

1973 -- Leo Esaki, of the Thomas J. Watson Research Center, earned the Nobel Prize in Physics for work in semiconductors
1986 -- Gerd Bining and Heinrich Rohrer, of IBM Research - Zurich for the scanning tunneling microscope
1987 -- Georg Bednorz and Alex Müller, of IBM Research - Zurich for research in superconductivity

link http://www.research.ibm.com/articles/2014nobel.shtml

May 21 2017, 4:34 AM
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