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Zhores Alferov

1930 - 2019

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Zhores Ivanovich Alferov (Russian: Жоре́с Ива́нович Алфёров, IPA: [ʐɐˈrɛs ɨˈvanəvʲɪtɕ ɐlˈfʲɵrəf]; Belarusian: Жарэс Іва́навіч Алфёраў; 15 March 1930 – 1 March 2019) was a Soviet and Russian physicist and academic who contributed significantly to the creation of modern heterostructure physics and electronics. He shared the 2000 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 lower house of the Russian parliament, the State Duma, as a member of the Communist Party from 1995. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Zhores Alferov is the 296th most popular physicist (down from 165th in 2019), the 26th most popular biography from Belarus (down from 15th in 2019) and the most popular Belarusian Physicist.

Zhores Alferov is most famous for his invention of the heterostructure field-effect transistor, which is a type of semiconductor device used in modern electronics.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Zhores Alferov ranks 296 out of 851. Before him are Ernest Walton, Lawrence M. Krauss, John Clauser, Anne L'Huillier, Harry Daghlian, and Abdul Qadeer Khan. After him are Carl von Linde, Samuel C. C. Ting, Klaus Hasselmann, Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker, Walter Kohn, and Friedrich Hund.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1930, Zhores Alferov ranks 80. Before him are Moustapha Akkad, Stanley Miller, Gaafar Nimeiry, Sonia Rykiel, Jean Rochefort, and Luce Irigaray. After him are David Dacko, Carlos Hugo, Duke of Parma, Itamar Franco, Chinua Achebe, Buck Henry, and Ernst Albrecht. Among people deceased in 2019, Zhores Alferov ranks 61. Before him are Lennart Johansson, Yasuhiro Nakasone, Godfried Danneels, Sigmund Jähn, Ferdinand Piëch, and Fernando de la Rúa. After him are Kary Mullis, Tony Buzan, Alan García, Franco Columbu, Raymond Poulidor, and Paul Greengard.

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In Belarus

Among people born in Belarus, Zhores Alferov ranks 26 out of 368. Before him are Léon Bakst (1866), Ossip Zadkine (1888), Isser Harel (1912), Alexander Parvus (1867), Pavel Sukhoi (1895), and Stanislav Shushkevich (1934). After him are Yakub Kolas (1882), Raphael Lemkin (1900), Mstislav I of Kiev (1076), Sophia of Minsk (1140), Bronislav Kaminski (1899), and Maria Kaczyńska (1942).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Belarus

Among physicists born in Belarus, Zhores Alferov ranks 1. After him are Yakov Zeldovich (1914), Otto Schmidt (1891), Zygmunt Florenty Wróblewski (1845), and Leonid Mandelstam (1879).

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