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...OFFICIAL DESCRIPTION OF WHY THEY WON: Alferov and Kroemer share half the prize for their work in "developing semiconductor heterostructures used in high-speed and opto-electronics" and Kilby takes his half for "his part in the invention of the integrated circuit...
...founded or managed by people of Indian origin. Indians have one of the highest per capita incomes of any immigrant group in the U.S. "It is a credit to this country that someone from a distant land can become an American," says Suhas Patil, founder and chairman emeritus of semiconductor manufacturer Cirrus Logic (1999 revenues: $564 million), who is now running an incubator company called Tufan, Inc. for Internet start-ups. "I am what defines America...
...ambition landed him a job at Fairchild Semiconductor, a growing California company that had a reputation for snatching rising engineers. But Grove did not stay with Fairchild long--the lab provided him with a much better connection...
...fundamental intellectual curiosity," says Joshua Cooper Ramo, who wrote Time's 1997 Man of the Year article on Grove. "When there are problems to be solved--whether it is scientific, like how to make a better semiconductor, or business-related, like how to build a business from scratch or where to build a multi-million dollar plant, he will solve them...
Does Einstein's discomfort with quantum theory make him less a candidate for Person of the Century? Not by much. His own work contributed greatly to quantum theory and to the semiconductor revolution it spawned. And his belief in the existence of a unified field theory could well be proved right in the new century...