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Herbert Kroemer

1928 - 2024

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Herbert Kroemer (German: [ˈhɛʁbɛʁt ˈkʁøːmɐ] ; August 25, 1928 – March 8, 2024) 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Herbert Kroemer is the 177th most popular physicist (up from 195th in 2019), the 471st most popular biography from Germany (up from 649th in 2019) and the 29th most popular German Physicist.

Herbert Kroemer was a German-born American physicist and Nobel laureate. He is most famous for his invention of the MOSFET (Metal Oxide Semiconductor Field Effect Transistor) and for his work in quantum electronics.

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Among physicists, Herbert Kroemer ranks 177 out of 851. Before him are Polykarp Kusch, Edmond Becquerel, Martinus J. G. Veltman, Leon Cooper, James Jeans, and Julius von Mayer. After him are Martin Lewis Perl, Richard E. Taylor, Arthur Leonard Schawlow, Burton Richter, Isamu Akasaki, and Shin'ichirō Tomonaga.

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Among people born in 1928, Herbert Kroemer ranks 29. Before him are Eddie Fisher, Arnold Rüütel, Shirley Temple, Alexander Grothendieck, Fidel Ramos, and Yves Klein. After him are Queen Fabiola of Belgium, James Coburn, Domenico Modugno, Agnès Varda, Elie Wiesel, and Martin Landau. Among people deceased in 2024, Herbert Kroemer ranks 32. Before him are Sven-Göran Eriksson, Paul Alexander, Thomas P. Stafford, Roger Guillemin, Jim Simons, and Leon Cooper. After him are Dési Bouterse, Alice Munro, Olivia Hussey, James Earl Jones, Vittorio Emanuele, Prince of Naples, and Quincy Jones.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Herbert Kroemer ranks 471 out of 7,253. Before him are Julius von Mayer (1814), Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld (1911), Joachim Löw (1960), Ernst Busch (1885), Ananda Mahidol (1925), and Erich Kästner (1899). After him are Maria Alexandrovna (1824), Friedrich Fromm (1888), Heinrich Mann (1871), Konrad Zuse (1910), Joachim Peiper (1915), and Louis the Child (893).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Germany

Among physicists born in Germany, Herbert Kroemer ranks 29. Before him are George Paget Thomson (1892), Hans Georg Dehmelt (1922), Gerd Binnig (1947), Ernst Abbe (1840), Polykarp Kusch (1911), and Julius von Mayer (1814). After him are Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742), Hans Geiger (1882), Horst Ludwig Störmer (1949), Max Delbrück (1906), Karl Schwarzschild (1873), and Theodor W. Hänsch (1941).

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