Zhores Alferov

Zhores Alferov
Zhores Alferov
Жорес Алфёров
	Alferov in 2016
Member of the State Duma (Party List Seat)
	In office; 17 January 1996 – 1 March 2019
Succeeded by	Mikhail Berulava
Personal details
Born	Zhores Ivanovich Alferov; 15 March 1930; Vitebsk, Byelorussian SSR, Soviet Union
Died	1 March 2019 (aged 88); Saint Petersburg, Russia
Party	NDR (1995–1999); CPRF (1999–2019);
Spouse	Tamara Darskaya
Children	2
Alma mater	V. I. Ulyanov Electrotechnical Institute; Ioffe Institute (KN, DN);
Known for	Laser diode; Thin-film solar cell;
Awards	Stuart Ballantine Medal (1971); EPS Europhysics Prize (1978); Demidov Prize (1999); Nobel Prize in Physics (2000); Nick Holonyak, Jr. Award (2000); Kyoto Prize in Advanced Technology (2001); State Prize of the Russian Federation (2001); SPIE Gold Medal (2002); Global Energy Prize (2005);
Scientific career
Fields	Solid-state physics
Institutions	Ioffe Institute
Thesis	Гетеропереходы в полупроводниках (1970)
Notable students	Dmitri Garbuzov; Victor Ustinov;

Zhores Ivanovich Alferov (15 March 1930 – 1 March 2019) was a Russian applied physicist who contributed significantly to the creation of modern heterostructure physics and electronics. In 2000, Alferov shared the 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 State Duma as a member of the Communist Party from 1999.