IBM Zurich Research Laboratory

IBM Research - Zurich (formerly IBM Zurich Research Laboratory) based in Rüschlikon near Zurich is the European Research Center of IBM and is supported by the IBM Research GmbH. The work of the institute led to pioneering inventions. Two discoveries have been awarded Nobel Prizes.

History

The IBM Zurich Research Laboratory was founded in 1956 in Knives. Since 1962 it is located in Rüschlikon.

The research of the laboratory was recognized in the 1980s with two Nobel Prizes in physics. Gerd Binnig and Heinrich Rohrer were awarded the 1986 Prize for their pioneering work on the scanning tunneling microscope. In addition, the Nanotechnology Center was named after them on the same site. Georg Bednorz and Karl Müller in 1987 honored for their research on high-temperature superconductivity. In addition, technologies such as trellis coded modulation for efficient data transfer, disk encodings with high data density as PRML and the network protocol token ring were developed at the laboratory.

2003, the research laboratory was spun off into a GmbH and has since formed a separate legal entity under Swiss Code of Obligations. However, IBM is still the sole owner.

2011 opened the " Binnig and Rohrer Nanotechnology Center " in collaboration between ETH Zurich, EMPA and IBM. It will allow scientists for the peer to research at atomic levels. In the same year the laboratory of IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, IBM Research was - Zurich renamed.

Presence

Today about 350 people work from more than 30 countries at the Zurich IBM laboratory.

Personalities

  • Georg Bednorz ( born 1950 ), physicist, Nobel Prize winner
  • Gerd Binnig ( born 1947 ), physicist, Nobel Prize winner
  • K. Alex Müller ( * 1927), physicist, Nobel Prize winner
  • Heinrich Rohrer (1933-2013), physicist, Nobel Prize winner
  • Ambros Speiser (1922-2003), engineer, first lab director
  • Gottfried Ungerboeck ( born 1940 ), communication engineers
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