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Herbert Kroemer
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Herbert Kroemer was a German-American physicist who lived from 1928 to 2024 and made significant contributions to the field of physics. His work was important enough to be recognized and remembered in the scientific community, though the specific details of his achievements would require additional sources to explain.
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Nobel Prize
- The Nobel Prize in Physics2000
“for developing semiconductor heterostructures used in high-speed- and opto-electronics”
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- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Herbert
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Weimar
- Occupation
- university teacher
- Educated at
- Friedrich Schiller University Jena
- Employer
- University of Colorado Boulder
- Languages spoken
- German
- Religion
- atheism
- Doctoral advisor
- Richard Becker
- Image
- Herbert Kroemer (cropped).jpg
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- date of birth
- 1928-08-25
- member of
- European Academy of Sciences
- Erdős number
- 9
- name in native language
- Herbert Krömer
- Commons category
- Herbert Kroemer
- influenced by
- Friedrich Hund
- interested in
- physics
- maintained by WikiProject
- WikiProject Mathematics
- date of death
- 2024-03-08
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Encyclopedic overview
Herbert Kroemer ( German: [ˈhɛʁbɛʁt ˈkʁøːmɐ] ; August 25, 1928 – March 8, 2024) was a German–American physicist who, along with Zhores Alferov, received the 2000 Nobel Prize in Physics "for developing semiconductor heterostructures used in high-speed- and opto-electronics." Kroemer was Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His research into transistors was a stepping stone to the later development of mobile phone technologies.
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