Zhores Alferov
Russian physicist
Died when: 88 years 351 days (1067 months)Star Sign: Pisces
Zhores Ivanovich Alferov (Russian: ????´? ???´????? ???????, [??'r?s ?'van?v??t? ??'f??r?f];Belarusian: ????? ???´????? ???????; 15 March 1930 – 1 March 2019) was a Soviet and Russian 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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