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Titolo: Deputato comunista vince premio Nobel

Per chi e' interessato, Zhores Alferov, il co-vincitore del premio
Nobel per la fisica di quest'anno (a causa del suo contributo allo
sviluppo dei circuiti integrati) e' attualmente deputato Comunista alla
Duma Russa.
Nell'intervista rilasciata dopo l'annuncio, l'ex direttore dell'istituto
fisico di Mosca ha detto che parte del merito della scoperta va
all'ottima organizzazione della ricerca scientifica nell'era Sovietica.
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Nobel winner says prize tribute to Soviet science
By Alexander Demyanchuk
ST PETERSBURG, Russia, Oct 10 (Reuters) - Zhores Alferov, a Communist
politician and the first Russian to win a Nobel prize since Mikhail
Gorbachev a
decade ago, said on Tuesday his physics award was a belated tribute to
Soviet
science.
Alferov and two American scientists -- Herbert Kroemer and Jack Kilby --
shared
the 2000 Nobel Physics prize for pioneering research in information
technology
and paving the way for computers, CD players and mobile telephones.
``It is without doubt a symbol of international recognition of our
Soviet and
Russian physics,'' Alferov, a seventy-year-old Communist deputy in
parliament,
told Reuters by telephone from his research institute in Russia's second
city
of St Petersburg.
Sipping Russian ``shampanskoye'' sparkling wine in his shirtsleeves
during a
jubilant impromptu meeting with reporters in his office a few hours
later, he
returned to the theme:
``I am from Russia -- from the Soviet Union, in fact, as the work which
won
this Nobel prize was done in the Soviet time,'' he said, adding that the
bulk
of the work he had been rewarded for was carried out at the end of the
1960s
and in the 1970s.
``There is nothing higher than a Nobel prize in the life of a
scientist,'' he
said.
Pacing excitedly around his office at the A.F. Ioffe Physico-Technical
Institute, he said Kroemer had worked out the theory and his team then
came up
with practical applications.
``We staged the first experiments -- fibre-optic lines, solar panels,
compact
disks,'' Alferov said, pausing for a second by a Communist red flag near
his
desk.
Alferov split half of the nearly $1 million prize with Kroemer for work
carried
out independently on either side of the iron curtain. Their discoveries
led to,
among other inventions, lasers like those in used in CD players and
fibre optic
cable.
Kilby, who helped invent the computer chip while working for Texas
Instruments
Inc, won the other half of the prize.
PRIZE MONEY WILL FUND NEW RESEARCH
Alferov said he would use a big chunk of his share to help science in
Russia,
severely underfunded since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991,
which
spent lavishly on research.
``In our country it is hard and difficult for us because research
spending is
constantly shrinking. It is because they think capitalists and bankers
will
give something to develop the country -- and they will never give
anything,''
he said.
Communist Party leader Gennady Zyuganov sent Alferov a telegram
congratulating
him on the prize.
``You bring glory on Soviet scientific schools,'' he said. ``I am proud
that
people with such mighty intellects work in the Communist faction in the
State
Duma and in our great Russia.''
Fresh from an impromptu sparkling wine celebration with fellow
researchers,
Alferov said soon after receiving a call from Sweden about the prize he
was
already assailed by questions about the money.
``I think my wife will help me with how to spend the other part,'' he
said.
Alferov is the first Russian to win a Nobel prize since Gorbachev won
the peace
prize in 1990, but he said he was more inclined to see himself as the
next in
line of famous Russian physicists.
``Mikhail Gorbachev got his award for striving for peace. I am getting
my
physics prize after Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa, who got his in 1978,''
Alferov
said. Kapitsa won the award for research on ultra-low temperatures.
Alferov was born in 1930 in Belarus, then part of the Soviet Union.
Since 1953
he has worked at the institute he now heads.
He has received many prestigious scientific awards and is an honorary
member of
research institutions around the world.
Alferov is expected in Stockholm on December 10 for the official awards
ceremony.
(Additional reporting by Andrei Shukshin in Moscow)
13:19 10-10-00
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all'ottima organizzazione della ricerca scientifica nell'era Sovietica.
Oh, mio Dio!!!
Allora č vero che l'Accademia di Svezia č piena di comunisti.
Aiuto!!!!
Ciao