The scientist, whose discoveries became the basis for the creation of modern electronic devices. Our world can no longer be imagined without lasers, semiconductors, LEDs and fiber-optic networks. All this became available to humanity thanks to the inventions of Zhores Alferov and the young scientists he brought up.
In 2000, the work of a scientist in the design and development of opto- and microelectronic semiconductor elements was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics. Up to this point, Zhores Alferov was the only Russian Nobel laureate who was not only raised by the Soviet education system, but also made all of his discoveries in his homeland, lived here.
The authority of a scientist in world science is based on more than 500 scientific papers and almost a hundred inventions. But the activity of the Nobel laureate is not limited to physics. In the summer of 2017, he as an academician gave an open lecture in Samara University on the topic: “Albert Einstein, socialism and the modern world”, where he uncovered issues of interaction between scholars and rulers.
In August 2017, Forbes magazine included Zhores Alferov in the hundred most influential Russians of the last century.
Zhores Alferov passed away in Saint Petersburg, Russia on March 2, 2019 at the age of 88.
