Nanotechnology

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Authors—34
Heinrich Rohrer // Nobel Laureate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16–22
Heinrich Rohrer is a Swiss physicist, who invented the scanning tunneling microscope
(STM) with Gerd Karl Binning in 1981 at the IBM Research Laboratory in
Zurich. The STM provided the first images of individual atoms on the surfaces of
materials. For their innovation, they shared half of the 1986 Nobel Prize in Physics
with Ernst Ruska who invented the first electron microscope in 1931. Rohrer
studied at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich and received
his doctorate there in 1960. He joined the IBM Research Laboratory in 1963,
where he remained until retiring in 1997.
Hans-Joachim Güntherodt // NCCR Nanoscience . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16–22
Hans Joachim Güntherodt has been the director of the National Center of Competence
in Research (NCCR ), Switzerland, since 2001. The NCCR, an initiative
of the Swiss National Science Foundation, was established in 1999 with the goal
of strengthening Switzerland’s position as a research center in strategically
important areas of science. He has also been a professor at the University of
Basel since 1974 and acted as rector from 1994 to 1996. In 1999, he was
named scientific director of the Technology Oriented Program (TOP) NANO 21
by the board of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology ( ETH ) and the Commission
for Technology and Innovation. He also served as director of the Swiss
Priority Program Micro- and Nanosystems (MINAST) for the board of directors
of the ETH in 1998. Hans Joachim Güntherodt was educated at the ETH in
Zurich and received his diploma degree in 1964 and his doctorate degree in
1967.
Rita Hofmann-Sievert // Ilford Imaging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16–22, 30–31
Rita Hofmann-Sievert is head of Research and Development and a member of
the board of directors at Ilford Group, Switzerland. She leads a team of more than
50 scientists, engineers and technical assistants. She has been involved in
research and applications for the development, color science, image permanence
and of test methods for inkjet materials for the past twelve years. Rita Hofmann
received her degree and doctorate in physical chemistry from the University of
Goettingen, Germany. After postdoctorate studies at the University of Colorado
and Pennsylvania State University, she joined Ciba-Geigy Basle in 1983 for work
in laser applications for analytics. In 1985, she became part of the photographic
division of Ciba, Ilford in Marly, Switzerland. She is also long-time, active member
of ANSI/ISO subcommittee TC 42/WG5, which is responsible for standardizing
accelerated archival storage conditions for imaging media and accelerated ageing
test methods for digital print media. She has served on the board of directors of
the International Society for Imaging Science and Technology (IS&T) since
2003.
Viola Vogel // ETH Zürich . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16–22
Viola Vogel is a professor in the department of Materials, heading the Laboratory
for Biologically Oriented Materials at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
(ETH) in Zurich. Her interdisciplinary research program centers in bio-nanotechnology
where she deciphers engineering principles of biological nanosystems
for the development of new technologies. This year, along with three other ETH
researchers, Vogel was awarded the Philip Morris Research Prize for the development
of molecular nanoshuttles. Prior to her recent move to Zurich, she served
as the founding director of the Center for Nanotechnology at the University of
Washington. She also was among the panel of advisors for president Bill Clinton’s
“Presidential National Nanotechnology Initiative” in 1999 and was the United
States Representative on the Council of Scientists of the Human Frontier Science
Program from 2003 to 2004.
Karl Knop // i4u GmbH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 –15, 24–29
Karl Knop, chief executive officer of i4u in Zug, Switzerland, is a consultant and
expert in research, technology and innovation. Prior to starting his own company,
he was chief scientist at Centre Suisse d’Electronique et de Microtechnique
(CSEM) from 2001 to 2004. He began working at CSEM in 1997 when the
Swiss National Laboratory, the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI ), Zurich, became
part of the center. From 1991 to 1997, he was head of PSI’s applied solid-state
division, which included responsibilities from such diverse fields as photovoltaics
and nanotechnology. During that time, he also taught at the Swiss Federal Institute
of Technology (ETH ). He was director of the Swiss National Laboratory from
1986 to 1991. In 1973, he joined the Optics group at Laboratories RCA Ltd. in
Zurich. Karl Knop is the founding member of the Swiss Society of Nanotechnology,
and he actively promoted nanotechnology in Switzerland from its beginning
in the early 1980s, by installing this research topic as a major theme first at PSI
and later at CSEM. He received a physics diploma in 1967 and his doctorate in
solid-state physics in 1972 from the ETH.