Herbert Kroemer

Herbert Kroemer

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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Herbert Kroemer has received more than 193,870 page views. His biography is available in 55 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 51 in 2019). Herbert Kroemer is the 208th most popular physicist (up from 250th in 2019), the 798th most popular biography from Germany (up from 984th in 2019) and the 31st 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.