Zhores Alferov (1930-2019) was a Soviet and Russian physicist awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2000, jointly with Herbert Kroemer and Jack Kilby, for developing semiconductor heterostructures, layered semiconductor materials with differing band gaps that made possible fast, efficient opto-electronic devices including the laser diodes used in fiber optic communication, barcode scanners and optical data storage. His research, carried out largely at the Ioffe Institute in Leningrad through the 1960s and 1970s, proceeded in parallel with related American work and helped establish the semiconductor heterostructure as a foundation of modern electronics. He later became a member of the Russian State Duma and an advocate for science funding and education in post Soviet Russia. He remained scientific director of the Ioffe Institute for decades after his Nobel Prize.
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WikipediaWikipedia article 'Zhores Alferov', Biography section, first sentence (birth year)
Zhores Ivanovich Alferov was born on 15 March 1930 in Vitebsk, Byelorussian SSR (now Belarus), the son of Ivan Karpovich Alferov and Anna Vladimirovna.
Wikipedia article 'Zhores Alferov', Biography section, first sentence (birth date)
Zhores Ivanovich Alferov was born on 15 March 1930 in Vitebsk, Byelorussian SSR (now Belarus), the son of Ivan Karpovich Alferov and Anna Vladimirovna.
Wikipedia article 'Zhores Alferov', Biography section, first sentence (birthplace)
Zhores Ivanovich Alferov was born on 15 March 1930 in Vitebsk, Byelorussian SSR (now Belarus), the son of Ivan Karpovich Alferov and Anna Vladimirovna.
Wikipedia article 'Zhores Alferov', lead paragraph, death clause (death year)
Zhores Ivanovich Alferov (15 March 1930-1 March 2019) was a Russian applied physicist who contributed significantly to the creation of modern heterostructure physics and electronics.
Wikipedia article 'Zhores Alferov', Biography section, death sentence (death date)
He died on 1 March 2019 in Saint Petersburg at the age of 88.
Wikipedia article 'Zhores Alferov', Biography section, death sentence (death place)
He died on 1 March 2019 in Saint Petersburg at the age of 88.
Wikipedia article 'Zhores Alferov', lead paragraph, first sentence (nationality)
Zhores Ivanovich Alferov (15 March 1930-1 March 2019) was a Russian applied physicist who contributed significantly to the creation of modern heterostructure physics and electronics.
Wikipedia article 'Zhores Alferov', lead paragraph, first sentence (field)
Zhores Ivanovich Alferov (15 March 1930-1 March 2019) was a Russian applied physicist who contributed significantly to the creation of modern heterostructure physics and electronics.
Wikipedia article 'Zhores Alferov', lead paragraph, second sentence (notable work)
In 2000, Alferov shared the Nobel Prize in Physics for the development of the semiconductor heterojunction for optoelectronics.
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