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...solid-state physics, not to mention a $231 billion worldwide industry for the microchips that are the heart of today's electronic wizardry, from computers to smart toasters to talking Barbie dolls. The other half of the prize, fittingly, went to Zhores Alferov of St. Petersburg's Ioffee Physico-Technical Institute and Herbert Kroemer of the University of California at Santa Barbara for continuing that revolution by pioneering the lightning-fast chips used in satellite links, cell phones and CD players...