<h2 class="ltx_title_subsection"></h2><h2 id="auto-label-subsection-620879" class="ltx_title_subsection">5. Nobel Prize in Physics (2000) awarded to Herbert Kroemer for: "Developing semiconductor heterostructures used in high-speed and opto-electronics."</h2><div></div><blockquote><div><a href="http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/2000/kroemer-bio.html">Rejection:</a> "I wrote up the idea and submitted the paper to&nbsp;<i>Applied Physics Letters</i>, where it was rejected. I was talked into not fighting the rejection, but to submit it to the&nbsp;<i>Proceedings of the IEEE</i>, where it was published, but ignored. I also wrote a patent, which is probably a better paper than the one in&nbsp;<i>Proc. IEEE</i>."</div></blockquote>