Herbert Kroemer
German-American physicist
Died when: 95 years 196 days (1146 months)Star Sign: Virgo
Herbert Kroemer (German pronunciation: ['h??b??t 'k?ø?m?]; born August 25, 1928) was a German-American physicist who, along with Zhores Alferov, received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2000 for "developing semiconductor heterostructures used in high-speed- and opto-electronics".
Kroemer is professor emeritus of electrical and computer engineering at the University of California, Santa Barbara, having received his Ph.D. in theoretical physics in 1952 from the University of Göttingen, Germany, with a dissertation on hot electron effects in the then-new transistor.
His research into transistors was a stepping stone to the later development of mobile phone technologies.
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