Host Bob Edwards talks with NPR Science correspondent Richard Harris about the winners of year's Nobel Prize for Physics. The prize is shared by Russia's Zhores Alferov and Americans Herbert Kroemer and Jack Kilby. Alferoy and Kroemer earned the award for their work on semi-conductors, while Kilby won for his part in the invention of the semi-conductor. Alferoy is the first Russian to win a Nobel prize since Mikhail Gorbachev's Peace Prize in 1990.
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