Ruschlikon is in the canton of Zurich in Switzerland, it is lies on the west shore of Lake Zurich. Ruschlikon is bordered on the north by Kilchberg, on the east by lake Zurich, on the south by Thalwil, and on the west by Adliswil and Langnau am Albis. Ruschlikon has a very small but charming town center. Ruschlikon is home to the IBM Zurich Research Lab, part of IBM Research, which has brought to Ruschlikon the Nobel prize in Physics awarded to Heinrich Rohrer and Gerd Binnig in 1986 and to Karl Alexander Muller and Johannes Georg Bednorz in 1987.