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Zhores I. Alferov

AKA Zhores Ivanovich Alferov

Born: 15-Mar-1930
Birthplace: Vitsebsk, USSR

Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Occupation: Scientist

Nationality: Russia
Executive summary: Developed solar cells for the Sputnik program

2000 Nobel prize for developing optical semiconductors.

Father: Ivan Karpovich
Mother: Anna Vladimirovna
Brother: Marx

    University: Ul'yanov Electrotechnical Institute in Leningrad (1952)
    Scholar: University of Illinois (1970-71)

    Franklin Institute
    National Academy of Engineering Foreign Associate (1990)
    National Academy of Sciences Foreign Associate (1990)
    Optical Society of America
    Russian Academy of Sciences
    Kyoto Prize 2001
    Nobel Prize for Physics 2000
    Belarusian Ancestry


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