page_title: Zhores Alferov
section_title: Awards
hierarchical_section_title: Zhores Alferov / Awards
caption_attribution_description: English: Zhores Alferov
context_page_description: 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 since 1995.
context_section_description: Russian and Soviet awards
  Order of Merit for the Fatherland:
  1st class (14 March 2005) – for outstanding contribution to the development of national science and active participation in legislative activities;
  2nd class (2000);
  3rd class (4 June 1999) – for outstanding contribution to the development of national science and training of highly qualified personnel in connection with the 275th anniversary of the Russian Academy of Sciences;
  4th class (15 March 2010) – for services to the state contribution to the development of national science and many years of fruitful activity
  Order of Lenin (1986)
  Order of the October Revolution (1980)
  Order of the Red Banner of Labour (1975)
  Order of the Badge of Honour (1959)
  State Prize of the Russian Federation (2001) in Science and Technology (5 August 2002) for his work, "Fundamental studies of the formation and properties of heterostructures with quantum dots and the creation of lasers based on them"
  Lenin Prize (1972) – for basic research in semiconductors and heterojunction development of new devices based on them
  USSR State Prize (1984) – for developing isoperiodic heterostructures based on quaternary solid solutions of A3B5 semiconductor compounds
  Foreign awards
  Order of Francisc Skorina (Belarus, 17 May 2001) – for his great personal contribution to the development of physical science, the organization of the Belarusian-Russian scientific and technical cooperation, strengthening the friendship between the peoples of Belarus and Russia
  Order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise, 5th class (Ukraine, 15 May 2003) – for personal contribution to the development of cooperation between Ukraine and the Russian Federation in the socio-economic and humanitarian spheres
  Officer of the Legion of Honour (France)
  Other awards
  Nobel Prize in Physics (Sweden, 2000; with Herbert Kroemer and Jack Kilby) – for the development of semiconductor heterostructures for high-speed optoelectronics
  Nick Holonyak Award (Optical Society of U.S., 2000)
  EPS Europhysics Prize (European Physical Society, 1978) – for new works in the field of heterojunctions
  AP Karpinsky Prize (Germany, 1989) – for his contributions to physics and technology of heterostructures
  AF Ioffe award (RAN, 1996) – for work, "Photoelectric converters of solar radiation on the basis of heterostructures"
  Demidov Prize (Scientific Demidov Foundation, Russia, 1999)
  Kyoto Prize (Inamori Foundation, Japan, 2001) – for success in creating semiconductor lasers operating in continuous mode at room temperature – a pioneer step in optoelectronics
  Vernadsky Award (NAS, 2001)
  "Russian National Olympus". The title "living legend" (Russia, 2001)
  International "Global Energy Prize" (Russia, 2005)
  H. Welker Gold Medal (1987) – for pioneering work on the theory and technology of devices based on III-V compounds of groups
  Stuart Ballantine Medal (Franklin Institute, USA, 1971) – for the theoretical and experimental studies of double-heterostructure laser, which were created by laser light sources of small size, operating in continuous mode at room temperature
  Popov Gold Medal (Academy of Sciences, 1999)
  SPIE Gold Medal (2002)
  Award Symposium on GaAs (1987) – for pioneering work in semiconductor heterostructures based on III-V compounds and group development of diode lasers and photodiodes
  Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement (2002)
  XLIX Mendeleev Reader – 19 February 1993
  Honorary Doctorate from Tampere University of Technology (2007)
  Honorary Professor of the medal and MIPT (2008)
  Honorary Member of the Moscow Society of Naturalists (2009)
  Honorary Doctor of the Russian-Armenian (Slavonic) University (State Educational Institution of the Russian-Armenian (Slavic) University, Armenia, 2011)
caption: Alferov on a 2020 stamp of Russia
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