| Zhores I. Alferov AKA Jores Ivanovich Alferov Born: 15-Mar-1930
Birthplace: Vitebsk, Belarus
Gender: Male
Religion: Atheist
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Scientist Nationality: Russia
Executive summary: Developed solar cells for the Sputnik program Russian physicist Zhores I. Alferov conducted breakthrough research into III-V semiconductor heterostructures, including detailed studies of epitaxy processes, injection properties, lasers, LED�s, and solar cells. His work provided the basis for the optical semiconductors and the solar cells that made the Soviet Union's Sputnik program possible, earning Alferov the Nobel Prize for Physics in 2000, shared with Herbert Kroemer and Jack S. Kilby. Father: Ivan Karpovich (factory manager)
Mother: Anna Vladimirovna
Brother: Marx (d. 1944 war)
Wife: Tamara Darskaya (m. 1967)
High School: Secondary School No. 42, Minsk, Belarus (1947)
University: BS Electronics, St Petersburg Electrotechnical University (1952)
Scholar: Researcher, Ioffe Physical-Technical Institute (1953-64)
University: MS Physics, Ioffe Physical-Technical Institute (1961)
Scholar: Senior Researcher, Ioffe Physical-Technical Institute (1964-67)
Administrator: Labratory Manager, Ioffe Physical-Technical Institute (1967-87)
University: PhD Physics and Mathematics, Ioffe Physical-Technical Institute (1970)
Scholar: Semiconductor Physics, University of Illinois (1970-71)
Administrator: Ioffe Physical-Technical Institute (1987-)
USSR Badge of Honor 1959
Franklin Institute Stuart Ballantine Medal 1971
Lenin Peace Prize 1972
USSR Order of the Red Banner of Labor 1975
Europhysics Prize 1978
USSR Order of October Revolution 1980
USSR State Prize 1984
Order of Lenin 1986
Heinrich Welker Medal 1987
FRG A.P. Karpinskii Prize 1989
RAS Ioffe Prize 1996
Nobel Prize for Physics 2000 (with Herbert Kroemer and Jack S. Kilby)
OSA Nicholas Holonyak Award 2000
Kyoto Prize 2001
Nauka i Zhizn' (Science and Life) Editorial Board
Pis'ma v Zhurnal Tekhnicheskoi Fiziki (Technical Physics Letters) Editor-in-Chief
Belarus National Academy of Sciences Foreign Member, 1995
Franklin Institute Foreign Member, 1971
German Academy of Science Corresponding Member, 1987
Korean Academy of Science and Technology Foreign Member, 1995
National Academy of Engineering Foreign Associate, 1990
National Academy of Sciences Foreign Associate, 1990
Optical Society of America Foreign Member, 2000
Polish Academy of Sciences Foreign Member, 1988
Russian Academy of Sciences 1972
Ukrainian Academy of Sciences Foreign Member, 2000
Belarusian Ancestry
Jewish Ancestry
Russian Ancestry
Asteroid Namesake 3884 Alferov
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