Rüschlikon - IBM Research Center

Beyond Kilchberg is the village of Rüschlikon (435 m/1,427ft), with the well-known IBM works near the Zurich-Sargans highway. The research center of the International Business Machines Corporation is one of the leading laboratories of the American multi-national concern. In 1986 the two IBM researchers G. Binnig and H. Rohrer received the Nobel prize for physics for their raster-tunnel microscope which was developed in Rüschlikon, and one year later two other physicists working in the laboratory, J. G. Bednorz and K. A. Müller, won the Nobel prize for their super-conductor for electric current. In the local cemetery lies the Swiss industrialist G. Duttweiler (1888-1962), who founded in 1925 the Migros food company.