1957 – At the age of 10, he decided to become a physicist.

1963 – He started playing the violin at 15 and played in his school orchestra.

1969 – He married Lore Wagler, a psychologist, and they have 2 children.

1978 – He was accepted an offer from IBM to join their Zürich research group.

1986 – He won the Nobel Prize in Physics With Heinrich Rohrer for their design of the scanning tunneling microscope.