English The Nobel Prize in Physics 2000 has awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for 2000″for basic work on information and communication technology” The prize is being awarded with one half jointly toZhores I. Alferov, A.F. Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia, andHerbert Kroemer, University of California at Santa Barbara, California, USA,”for developing semiconductor heterostructures…

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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…

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Presentation Speech by Professor Tord Claeson of the , December 10, 2000. Translation of the Swedish text. Professor Tord Claeson delivering the Presentation Speech for the 2000 Nobel Prize in Physics at the Stockholm Concert Hall. Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, Information technology (IT) influences our lives at many levels.…

(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.

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