Zhores Alferov

Zhores Alferov
Alferov in 2012
Born	Zhores Ivanovich Alferov 15 March 1930(1930-03-15) Vitebsk, Byelorussian SSR, Soviet Union
Died	1 March 2019(2019-03-01) (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 (Russian: Жоре́с Ива́нович Алфёров, [ʐɐˈrɛs ɪˈvanəvʲɪtɕ ɐɫˈfʲɵrəf]; 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.

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.

Other websites

• (in Russian) Zhores Alferov website at the Communist Party of the Russian Federation
• Biography, on the website of Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute
• Autobiography, on the website of Nobel Foundation web group in Stockholm
• Open letter to the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir V. Putin