Zhores I. Alferov

Nobel Prize in Physics 2000

“for developing semiconductor heterostructures used in high-speed- and opto-electronics”

Zhores I. Alferov was a Russian physicist. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2000 for developing semiconductor heterostructures used in high-speed- and opto-electronics, and at the time of the award he was affiliated with the A.F. Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute, Russia.