Original: Its development in 1981 earned its inventors, Gerd Binnig and Heinrich Rohrer (at IBM ZÃ 1\/4 rich), the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1986.
Simplified: It was developed in 1981. Its inventors, Gerd Binnig and Heinrich Rohrer (at IBM ZÃ 1\/4 rich), won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1986.