We had the freedom to make mistakes. That's something very … - Heinrich Rohrer

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We had the freedom to make mistakes. That's something very important. Unfortunately, this freedom for scientists gets more and more lost. … Otherwise, you do the common things. You don't dare to do something beyond what everybody else thinks.

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

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