Zhores Alferov | |
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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 |
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Born | 15 March 1930 Vitebsk, Byelorussian SSR, Soviet Union |
Died | 1 March 2019 St. Petersburg, Russia | (aged 88)
Nationality | Russian |
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Spouse(s) | Tamara Georgievna Alfyrova (née Darskaya, m. 1967) |
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Known for | Heterojunction |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Applied Physics |
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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.
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