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Zhores Alferov
Zhores Alferov · Рустем Кадыров, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
Person

Zhores Alferov

1930 – 2019 · aged 89

Soviet-Russian physicist (1930–2019)

Born
15 Mar 1930 · Vitebsk
Died
1 Mar 2019 · Saint Petersburg
Part ofRussia1223 – todayBelarus1385 – todaySoviet Union1848 – 1991Atheism460 BCE – today

Life timeline

Their life from birth to death. On the timeline, world events of the time are shown faintly.

Showing 102 years
  1. 15 Mar 1930BornBorn in Vitebsk
  2. 1959AwardOrder of the Badge of Honour
  3. 1971AwardStuart Ballantine Medal
  4. 1972AwardLenin Prize
  5. 1975AwardOrder of the Red Banner of Labour
  6. 1980AwardOrder of the October Revolution
  7. 1984AwardUSSR State Prize
  8. 1986AwardOrder of Lenin
  9. 1995 – 2019RoleMember of the State Duma
  10. 1996AwardThe Russian Federation Power Engineer Award
  11. 1996AwardJoffe Prize
  12. 1999AwardA. S. Popov Gold Medal
  13. 1999AwardDemidov Prize
  14. 1999AwardOrder "For Merit to the Fatherland", 3rd class
  15. 1 Mar 2019DiedDied in Saint Petersburg

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Meanwhile in the world

Major world events during their lifetime (1930 – 2019).

  1. 1933 – 1945The Holocaust
  2. 19341934 FIFA World Cup
  3. 19361936 Summer Olympics
  4. 1937 – 1945Second Sino-Japanese War
  5. 19381938 FIFA World Cup
  6. 1938Munich Agreement
  7. 1939 – 1940Winter War
  8. 1939 – 1945World War II
  9. 1940 – 1945Auschwitz concentration camp
  10. 1941Attack on Pearl Harbor
  11. 1941 – 1945Eastern Front
  12. 1941Operation Barbarossa
  13. 1942 – 1943Battle of Stalingrad
  14. 1945Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
  15. 1945 – 1946Nuremberg trials
  16. 19501950 FIFA World Cup
  17. 1950 – 1953Korean War
  18. 1953 – 1959Cuban Revolution
  19. 19541954 FIFA World Cup
  20. 1955 – 1975Vietnam War
  21. 1956Hungarian Revolution of 1956
  22. 1956Suez Crisis
  23. 19581958 FIFA World Cup
  24. 1959Antarctic Treaty System
  25. 19621962 FIFA World Cup
  26. 1962Cuban Missile Crisis
  27. 19661966 FIFA World Cup
  28. 1966 – 1976Cultural Revolution
  29. 1968Prague Spring
  30. 1969Apollo 11 Moon landing
  31. 19721972 Summer Olympics
  32. 19741974 FIFA World Cup
  33. 19781978 FIFA World Cup
  34. 1978 – 1979Iranian Revolution
  35. 1979 – 1989Soviet–Afghan War
  36. 1980 – 1988Iran–Iraq War
  37. 19841984 Summer Olympics
  38. 1985Schengen Agreement
  39. 19891989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre
  40. 1989Fall of the Berlin Wall

Biography

Zhores Ivanovich Alferov (15 March 1930 – 1 March 2019) was a Soviet and Russian physicist who contributed significantly to the creation of modern heterostructure physics and electronics. In 2000, Alferov shared the Nobel Prize in Physics for the development of the semiconductor heterojunction for optoelectronics. He also became a politician in his later life, serving in the State Duma as a member of the Communist Party from 1999.

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