The Nobel Prize in Physics 2000
Awarded on: 2000-10-10
"for developing semiconductor heterostructures used in high-speed- and opto-electronics"
Affiliations:
- University of California – Santa Barbara, CA, USA
Herbert Kroemer
Born: 1928-08-25 in Weimar, Germany
Gender: male
Field: German-American physicist (1928–2024)
Biography
Herbert Kroemer 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 was 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.