The discoverers of the scanning tunneling microscope won the Nobel Prize for ____ in 1986.
A) biology
B) medicine
C) chemistry
D) peace
E) physics

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The scanning tunneling microscope is a scientific instrument used to study the surfaces of materials at the atomic level. It was invented by Gerd Binnig and Heinrich Rohrer in 1981, and their work on this microscope earned them the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1986. The other options (biology, medicine, peace, and chemistry) are not related to the invention and development of the scanning tunneling microscope.

The Discoverers of the Scanning Tunneling Microscope Won the Nobel