Zhores Alferov

Zhores Alferov
Zhores Alferov
Жорес Алфёров
	Alferov in 2012
Member of the State Duma (Party List Seat)
	In office; 17 January 1996 – 1 March 2019
Succeeded by	Mikhail Berulava
Personal details
Born	15 March 1930; Vitebsk, Byelorussian SSR, Soviet Union
Died	1 March 2019 (aged 88); St. Petersburg, Russia
Nationality	Russian
Political party	CPRF (from 1999); NDR (1995-1999); CPSU (until 1991);
Spouse(s)	Tamara Georgievna Alfyrova (née Darskaya, m. 1967)
Children	Olga; Irina; Ivan;
Parents	Ivan Karpovich Alferov (father); Anna Rosenblum (mother);
Education	Belarusian Polytechnic Institute; LETI (Specialist/MSc); Ioffe Institute (Candidate, DSc);
Occupation	Physicist; Professor; Politician;
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); Order of Lenin (1986); Lenin Prize (1972); Stuart Ballantine Medal (1971);
Known for	Heterojunction
	Scientific career
Fields	Applied Physics
Institutions	Russian Academy of Science; Ioffe Institute;
Thesis	Heterojunctions in semiconductors (1970)

Zhores Ivanovich Alferov (Russian: Жоре́с Ива́нович Алфёров, IPA: [ʐɐˈrɛs ɨˈvanəvʲɪtɕ ɐlˈfʲɵrəf]; Belarusian: Жарэс Іва́навіч Алфёраў; 15 March 1930 – 1 March 2019) was a Soviet and Russian^[1]^[2] physicist and academic who contributed significantly to the creation of modern heterostructure physics and electronics. He shared the 2000 Nobel Prize in Physics for the development of the semiconductor heterojunction for optoelectronics. He also became a politician in his later life, serving in the lower house of the Russian parliament, the State Duma, as a member of the Communist Party from 1995.

^ Meissner, Dirk; Gokhberg, Leonid; Saritas, Ozcan (2019). Emerging Technologies for Economic Development. Springer International Publishing. p. 65. ISBN 978-3-030-04368-1.
^ Petrova-Koch, Vesselinka; Hezel, Rudolf; Goetzberger, Adolf (2020). High-Efficient Low-Cost Photovoltaics: Recent Developments. Springer. p. 11. ISBN 978-3-030-22864-4.