Zhores Alferov

Zhores Ivanovich Alferov (, ; ; 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.

His mother was Jewish who worked as a librarian, and his father was a Communist activist who fought in the Red Army. 

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.

References

Other websites
  Zhores Alferov website at the Communist Party of the Russian Federation
Biography , on the website of Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute
Autobiography , on the website of Nobel Foundation web group in Stockholm
Open letter to the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir V. Putin

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