Zhores Alferov: Soviet-Russian physicist (1930–2019)
Zhores Ivanovich Alferov (Russian: Жоре́с Ива́нович Алфёров, ; Belarusian: Жарэс Іва́навіч Алфёраў; 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.
Zhores Alferov | |
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 Alferov in 2012 | |
| Born | Zhores Ivanovich Alferov 15 March 1930 |
| Died | 1 March 2019 (aged 88) |
| Nationality | Soviet (until 1991) / Russian (since 1991) |
| Alma mater | Saint Petersburg State Electrotechnical University "LETI" (old name V. I. Ulyanov Electrotechnical Institute "LETI") |
| Known for | Heterotransistors |
| Spouse | Tamara Darskaya (m. 1967) |
| 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) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Applied physics |
| Institutions | Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute |
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.
References
Other websites
- (in Russian) Zhores Alferov website at the Communist Party of the Russian Federation
- Biography Archived 2014-10-03 at the Wayback Machine, on the website of Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute
- Autobiography Archived 2008-08-30 at the Wayback Machine, on the website of Nobel Foundation web group in Stockholm
- Open letter to the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir V. Putin
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