First, they invented something called the scanning tunneling microscope, or STM.

首先，他们发明了叫作“扫描通道显微镜（STM）”的东西。

While Gerd and his colleagues won a Nobel Prize for inventing the scanning tunneling microscope, he wasn't satisfied.

虽然 Gerd 和同事因发明扫描隧道显微镜而获得了诺贝尔奖，但他并未因此满足。

And this isn't just some wacky idea -- tunneling is used in scanning tunneling microscopes.

这不仅仅是一些古怪的想法——隧道效应被用于扫描隧道显微镜。

In 1986 Dr. Binnig shared the Nobel Prize in Physics for the design of the scanning tunneling microscope and later, in 2016, he shared the Kavli Prize in Nanoscience for the invention of the atomic force microscope.

1986年，Binnig 博士因设计出扫描隧道显微镜而与他人共同获得诺贝尔物理学奖，之后的2016年，他又凭借发明原子力显微镜而与其他研究者共同获得了卡夫里纳米科学奖。