Asteroids named after people called Gerd
馃懚 Gerd as a baby name
German physicist Gerd Binnig (b. 1947) received his doctorate from the Goethe University in his native city of Frankfurt am Main in 1978. Together with his colleague Heinrich Rohrer he was awarded the 1986 Nobel Prize in Physics for the invention of the scanning tunneling microscope.Discovered 14 February 2008 by Schwab, E., Kling, R., Taunus
Gerd Sandstede (b. 1929) is a chemist active in the development of fuel cells, and a former director of the Battelle Institute Frankfurt, Germany. From 1991 to 2007 he was President (and since 2007, honorary President) of the Physikalischer Verein. In 1998 he initiated the construction of the Taunus Observatory.Discovered 25 August 2007 by Karge, S., Kling, R., Taunus
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