The Nobel Prize in Physics 2000
Awarded on: 2000-10-10
"for developing semiconductor heterostructures used in high-speed- and opto-electronics"
Affiliations:
- A.F. Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute – St. Petersburg, Russia
Zhores I. Alferov
Born: 1930-03-15 in Vitebsk, Belorussia, USSR (now Belarus)
Gender: male
Field: Soviet-Russian physicist (1930–2019)
Biography
Zhores Ivanovich Alferov 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.