Zhores Alferov

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Zhores Alferov
BornZhores Ivanovich Alferov
15 Mairch 1930(1930-03-15)
Vitebsk, Byeloroushie SSR, Soviet Union
Dee'd1 Mairch 2019 (aged 88)
NaitionalitySoviet (till 1991) / Roushie (syne 1991)
Alma materSaunt Petersburg State Electrotechnical Varsity "LETI" (auld name V. I. Ulyanov Electrotechnical Institute "LETI")
Kent forHeterotransistors
Hauf-marrae(s)Tamara Darskaya (m. 1967)
AwairdsGlobal Energy Prize (2005)
Kyoto Prize in Advanced Technology (2001)
Nobel Prize in Pheesics (2000)
Demidov Prize (1999)
Ioffe Prize (Roushie Academy o Sciences, 1996)
USSR State Prize (1984)
Lenin Prize (1972)
Stuart Ballantine Medal (1971)
Order o Lenin (1986)
Scientific career
FieldsApplee'd pheesics
InstitutionsIoffe Physico-Technical Institute

Zhores Ivanovich Alferov (Roushie: Жоре́с Ива́нович Алфёров, [ʐɐˈrʲɛs ɪˈvanəvʲɪtɕ ɐlˈfʲɵrəf]; Belaroushie: Жарэс Іва́навіч Алфёраў; born Mairch 15, 1930; deed Mairch 1, 2019) wis a Belaroushie, Soviet an Roushie pheesicist an academic wha contreibutit significantly tae the creation o modren heterostructure phesics an electronics. He is the inventor o the heterotransistor an the winner o 2000 Nobel Prize in Pheesics. He is an aa a Roushie politeecian an haes been a member o the Roushie State Pairlament, the Duma, syne 1995. Lately, he haes acome ane o the maist influential members o the Communist Pairty o the Roushie Federation.