Zhores Ivanovich Alferov

Zhores Ivanovich Alferov (also Alfyorov) (Russian: ?????? ????????? ???????) (born March 15 1930) is a Russian physicist who contributed significantly to the creation of modern heterostructure physics and electronics.

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Russian - March 15 - 1930 - Russian - Physicist

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Alferov was born in Vitebsk, Byelorussian SSR. In 1952 he graduated from V. I. Ulyanov (Lenin) Electrotechnical Institute in Leningrad (abbreviated to LETI). Since 1953 he works in the Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute of the USSR Academy of Sciences (Russian Academy of Sciences since 1991). From the Institute he earned scientific degrees: a Candidate of Sciences in Technology in 1961 and a Doctor of Sciences in Physics and Mathematics in 1970. Director of the Institute since 1987. He was elected a corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences in 1972 and Academy's full member in 1979. From 1989 he has been Vice-President of the USSR (Russian since 1991) Academy of Sciences and President of its Saint Petersburg Scientific Center.

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Vitebsk - Byelorussian SSR - 1952 - Leningrad - 1953 - Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute - USSR Academy of Sciences - Russian Academy of Sciences - 1991 - 1961 - 1970 - 1987 - 1972 - 1979 - Saint Petersburg

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