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Herbert Kroemer (born 1928) was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics "for developing semiconductor heterostructures used in high-speed and opto-electronics".
The other co-recipient of the Nobel Prize was Jack Kilby for his invention and development of integrated circuits and micro-chips.
He had an early success in a rather different subject, when together with Burgess and Houston in 1953, he detecte

d a mathematical error in Nordheim's theory of electron tunneling through the image-force rounded barrier used in the theory of field electron emission. Between them, they generated tables of correction-factor values that are still in use over 50 years later.
Along with Charles Kittel he co-authored the popular textbook Thermal Physics, first published in 1980, and still used today.
He is also the author of the textbook Quantum Mechanics for Engineering, Materials Science and Applied Physics.
You have no belief that there's an afterlife?
"That's correct."
And in the pattern of elementary particles and the constants that I mentioned and so on, you don't see the evidence of a designer?
"No, I don't."
Could you say more about it?
"I think it's wishful thinking."
Wishful?
"Yes. I mean there are some people that see the evidence of some sort of design and I just do not accept that thinking. I have no desire whatsoever to push this view on others and if you hadn't asked me about it, I wouldn't have mentioned it. But I'm also reluctant to say so when I'm asked."
Herbert Kroemer (physicist and professor of electrical and computer engineering)