Heinrich Rohrer ( 6 June 1933 -- 16 May 2013 ) was a Swiss physicist who shared half of the 1986 Nobel Prize in Physics with Gerd Binnig for the design of the scanning tunneling microscope ( STM ) .
Heinrich Rohrer ( 6 June 1933 -- 16 May 2013 ) was a Swiss physicist . He shared half of the 1986 Nobel Prize in Physics with Gerd Binnig for the design of the scanning tunneling microscope ( STM ) .