Zhores Alferov

Zhores Alferov
Жорес Алфёров
Alferov in 2012
Member of the State Duma (Party List Seat)
In office
17 January 1996 – 1 March 2019
Succeeded byMikhail Berulava
Personal details
Born15 March 1930
Vitebsk, Byelorussian SSR, Soviet Union
Died1 March 2019(2019-03-01) (aged 88)
St. Petersburg, Russia
NationalityRussian
Political party
Spouse(s)Tamara Georgievna Alfyrova (née Darskaya, m. 1967)
Children
  • Olga
  • Irina
  • Ivan
Parents
  • Ivan Karpovich Alferov (father)
  • Anna Rosenblum (mother)
Education
Occupation
  • Physicist
  • Professor
  • Politician
Awards
Known forHeterojunction
Scientific career
FieldsApplied Physics
Institutions
ThesisHeterojunctions 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.

  1. ^ Meissner, Dirk; Gokhberg, Leonid; Saritas, Ozcan (2019). Emerging Technologies for Economic Development. Springer International Publishing. p. 65. ISBN 978-3-030-04368-1.
  2. ^ Petrova-Koch, Vesselinka; Hezel, Rudolf; Goetzberger, Adolf (2020). High-Efficient Low-Cost Photovoltaics: Recent Developments. Springer. p. 11. ISBN 978-3-030-22864-4.