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| Zhores Alferov | |
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Alferov in 2012
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| Born | Zhores Ivanovich Alferov 15 March 1930 Vitebsk, Byelorussian SSR, Soviet Union |
| Died | 1 March 2019 (aged 88) Saint Petersburg, Russia |
| Nationality | Soviet (until 1991) / Russian (since 1991) |
| Fields | Applied physics |
| Institutions | Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute |
| Alma mater | Saint Petersburg State Electrotechnical University "LETI" (old name V. I. Ulyanov Electrotechnical Institute "LETI") |
| Known for | Heterotransistors |
| Notable awards | Global Energy Prize (2005) Kyoto Prize in Advanced Technology (2001) Nobel Prize in Physics (2000) Demidov Prize (1999) Ioffe Prize (Russian Academy of Sciences, 1996) USSR State Prize (1984) Lenin Prize (1972) Stuart Ballantine Medal (1971) Order of Lenin (1986) |
Zhores Ivanovich Alferov (15 March 1930 – 1 March 2019) was a Soviet and Russian physicist and academic. He worked significantly to the creation of modern heterostructure physics and electronics. He was the inventor of the heterotransistor and the winner of 2000 Nobel Prize in Physics.
He was also a Russian politician. He was a member of the lower house of the Russian parliament the State Duma, from 1995 until 2019.
Alferov died of complications from a stroke on 1 March 2019 in Saint Petersburg, aged 88.
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Alferov with Vladimir Putin
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Alferov speaking at the opening of the Nanotechnology International Forum in Moscow, November 2010.