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Zhores Alferov
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Zhores Alferov | |
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![]() Alferov in 2012 | |
Born | Zhores Ivanovich Alferov 15 March 1930 Vitebsk, Byelorussian SSR, Soviet Union |
Died | 1 March 2019 Saint Petersburg, Russia | (aged 88)
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) |
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.[2]
References
- ↑ "Умер Жорес Алферов" (in ru). 2 March 2019. https://tass.ru/nauka/6177836. Retrieved 2 March 2019.
- ↑ "Умер нобелевский лауреат Жорес Алферов" (in Russian). RIA Novosti. https://ria.ru/20190302/1551496774.html. Retrieved 2 March 2019.
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