biography
| name: |
Alferov, Zhores Ivanovich
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pronunciation:
[alferof]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1930– )
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| biography:
| Physicist, born in Vitebsk, NE Belarus. He studied at the Leningrad Ulyanov (Lenin) Electrotechnical Institute (1952), and joined the AF Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute in St Petersburg (1953) as an engineer and researcher, becoming director of the institute in 1987. He shared the 2000 Nobel Prize for Physics for his groundbreaking work in the development of semiconductor heterostructures. |
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