Understanding it fully would require you to have read both the previous entries in this series (which is unlikely), have remembered them (which is even more unlikely), and have understood them (we’ve reached a level of unlikeliness that can only be calculated by the statisticians on SteemSTEM )
Happy to say I remember some stuff from the former articles of the series. :)
So in short, this guy was the first to come up with a practical application of the work of the two other laureates? Am I correct?
Yeah that's it in a nutshell. Others have contributed to this goal, but he devoted his career to this. To my surprise, there wasn't any one discovery that cemented his legacy. It was a series of excellent research and publication over many years that earned him the prize.
Wow! Fully a one-person work? This is rare, especially today where one often relies on earlier works in one way or the other :)