Heinrich Rohrer Medal

The 4th Heinrich Rohrer Medals will be awarded to following reseachers.

The Medal was established after the name of Late Dr. Heinrich Rohrer, one of the Laureates of Nobel Prize in Physics in 1986, for recognizing researchers who have made the world-top level achievements in the fields of nanoscience and nanotechnology.

The award ceremony will be held at ISSS-10, and the winners will deliver award lecture/talks.

The details and history of the Heinrich Rohrer Medal are here.

The 4th Heinrich Rohrer Medal -Grand Medal- (2024)

Franz J. Giessibl (Universität Regensburg, Germany)

For the invention of the qPlus force sensor, which proved that sub-atomic spatial resolution is achievable in atomic force microscopy (AFM) and scanning probe microscopy (SPM), revolutionizing their range of applications for both AFM and SPMerties of magnetic atoms on surfaces for revealing the quantum nature of the magnetism at the atomic scale.

Wilson Ho (University of California, Irvine, USA)

For the development of scanning tunneling microscopy-based inelastic electron tunneling spectroscopy (STM-IETS), enabling the detection of various chemical and physical properties of single atoms and molecules, thereby opening up quantitative science by STM.

The 4th Heinrich Rohrer Medal -Rising Medal- (2024)

Yi Chen (Peking University, China)

For the pioneering contributions that have pushed the boundaries of scanning tunneling microscopy along two directions which are the creation of the first atomic scale multi-qubit platform and the innovative visualization of exotic excitations in a quantum spin liquid.

Miyabi Imai-Imada (RIKEN, Japan)

For the significant achievement of the first atomic-scale visualization of photocurrent channels within a single molecule by the development of resonant fluorescence utilizing tunable laser techniques for single-molecule spectroscopy.