page_title: Zhores Alferov
hierarchical_section_title: Zhores Alferov
caption_attribution_description: Русский: Жорес Иванович Алфёров (род. 1930) — российский физик
context_page_description: Zhores Ivanovich Alferov was a Soviet and Russian physicist and academic. He worked significantly to the creation of modern heterostructure physics and electronics. He was the inventor of the heterotransistor and the winner of 2000 Nobel Prize in Physics.
  He was also a Russian politician. He was a member of the lower house of the Russian parliament the State Duma, from 1995 until 2019.
  Alferov died of complications from a stroke on 1 March 2019 in Saint Petersburg, aged 88.
context_section_description: Zhores Ivanovich Alferov (Russian: Жоре́с Ива́нович Алфёров, [ʐɐˈrɛs ɪˈvanəvʲɪtɕ ɐɫˈfʲɵrəf]; Belarusian: Жарэс Іва́навіч Алфёраў; 15 March 1930 – 1 March 2019) was a Soviet and Russian physicist and academic. He worked significantly to the creation of modern heterostructure physics and electronics. He was the inventor of the heterotransistor and the winner of 2000 Nobel Prize in Physics.
  He was also a Russian politician. He was a member of the lower house of the Russian parliament the State Duma, from 1995 until 2019.
  Alferov died of complications from a stroke on 1 March 2019 in Saint Petersburg, aged 88.
caption: Alferov in 2012
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