Russian Nobel Prize Winner Zhores Alferov dies at 88

Russian physicist and Nobel Prize laureate Zhores Alferov, has died at the age of 88 in St Petersburg.
In 2000, Alferov received the Nobel Prize in Physics together with US scientists Jack Kilby and Herbert Kroemer, for developing semiconductor heterostructures used in high-speed-and optoelectronics.
He was elected a corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences in 1972, and a full member in 1979.

Published On : 04 Mar 2019