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Physics Nobel Laureate Herbert Kroemer Dies at 95

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Herbert Kroemer Nobel Laureate Life Fellow, 95; died 8 March Kroemer, a pioneering physicist, is a Nobel laureate, receiving the 2000 Nobel Prize in Physics for developing semiconductor heterostructures for high-speed and opto-electronics. The semiconductor manufacturer was founded by Nobel laureate William Shockley.

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Founder of MIT’s Microsystems Technology Labs Dies at 88

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His first job was designing microwave radio systems in Yugoslavia for a radio equipment design and manufacturing startup. He left the company in 1986 and founded Communications Research, a consulting service for manufacturers, in Palo Alto, Calif. He earned a bachelor's degree and Ph.D.

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