5. Nobel Prize in Physics (2000) awarded to Herbert Kroemer for: "Developing semiconductor heterostructures used in high-speed and opto-electronics."

Rejection: "I wrote up the idea and submitted the paper to Applied Physics Letters, where it was rejected. I was talked into not fighting the rejection, but to submit it to the Proceedings of the IEEE, where it was published, but ignored. I also wrote a patent, which is probably a better paper than the one in Proc. IEEE."