Nobel Prize

German 10 Oktober 2000 hat beschlossen den Nobelpreis in Physik für das Jahr 2000 an Forscher und Erfinder zu verleihen, deren Arbeiten die Basis zu der modernen Informationstechnologie, IT, gelegt haben; und zwar speziell durch ihre Erfindung schneller Transistoren, Laserdioden sowie integrierter Schaltkreise (Chips). Der Preis wird verliehen mit der einen Hälfte gemeinsam an Zhores…

Swedish 10 oktober 2000 har beslutat utdela Nobelpriset i fysik år 2000till forskare och uppfinnare, vars arbeten lagt grunden till den moderna informationstekniken, IT,speciellt genom sina uppfinningar av snabba transistorer, laserdioder och integrerade kretsar (chips). Priset utdelas med ena hälften gemensamt till Zhores I. AlferovA.F. Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute, St. Petersburg, Ryssland, och Herbert KroemerUniversity of…

Editors: Professor Anders Larsson, Department of Microelectronics, Chalmers University of Technology, Professor Anders Bárány, Secretary of the Nobel Committee for Physics, Dr. Solgerd Björn-Rasmussen, The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences Layout: Kjell Lundin, Explicare Printing: Tryckindustri 2000 © , Box 50005, SE-104 05 Stockholm, Sweden. Tel:+46 8 673 95 00, Fax:+46 8-15 56 70, e-mail:…

Information technology has a profound influence on our entire society. Using fibreoptics and wireless communication, information flows throughout the global network, Internet. Computers at home, in school, and at work allow us to access this information and use it for different purposes. This has all been made possible through scientific and technical developments originating largely…

(press release): The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. The Chip. T.R. Reid, Simon & Shuster, New York 1984. The 100-million-transistor IC, L. Geppert, and related articles in the Special Report: Semiconductors, IEEE Spectrum, p. 22, July 1999. Physics and the information revolution, J. Birnbaum and R.S. Williams, Physics Today, p. 38, January 2000. Heterostructure lasers,…

Contents: Based on materials from the 2000 Nobel Poster for Physics.

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for basic work on information and communication technology. The prize is being awarded with one half jointly to Zhores I. Alferov, Russia, and Herbert Kroemer, USA, for developing semiconductor heterostructures used in high-speed and optoelectronics and one half to Jack. S. Kilby,…

    The works of Wolfgang Paul, which led to the Paul trap, are based on investigations of the properties of electric and magnetic so called multipoles. A common magnet has two poles and is called a dipole, one with four poles, a quadrupole, one with six, a hexapole etc. Paul has shown that a…

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Physics has the ambition to discover the laws of nature. The predictions of these laws must be checked by accurate experiments. Even very small deviations are of great principal importance and require the highest possible precision in the measurements. The laws of physics are directly or indirectly based on quantities such as mass, length, time…