Zhores Alferov
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2000.
Born: 15, Mar, 1930, Vitebsk Belorussia, USSR (now Belarus)
Died: 1, Mar, 2019, St. Petersburg, Russia
Prize motivation: "for developing semiconductor heterostructures used in high-speed- and opto-electronics"
Affiliation at the time of the award: A.F. Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia
Prize share: 1/4