Herb Kroemer and

the Discovery-Invention Cycle

University of California Santa BarbaraMay 20, 2013

Venky Narayanamurti

•Personal remembrances•1957 paper•Breaking the “Basic and Applied” Dichotomy and the Discovery-Invention Cycle

Kroemer’s Lemma of Proven Ignorance

“If, in discussing a semiconductor problem, you cannot draw an Energy Band Diagram, this shows that you don’t know what you are talking about, with the corollaryIf you can draw one, but don’t, then your audience won’t know what you are talking about.”

-Kroemer 2000 Nobel Lecture