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: Russian applied physicist (1930–2019)
Biography
Zhores Ivanovich Alferov was a Russian applied physicist 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 State Duma as a member of the Russian Communist Party from 1999.