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Zhores Alferov
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<p>Zhores Ivanovich Alferov was a Soviet and Russian <a href="/facts/Physicist/cQcgvSIm">physicist</a> and academic who contributed significantly to the creation of modern <a href="/facts/Heterojunction/mvnxnIU7">heterostructure physics and electronics</a>. He shared the 2000 <a href="/facts/Nobel_Prize_in_Physics/o6w1nCbr">Nobel Prize in Physics</a> for the development of the semiconductor <a href="/facts/Heterojunction/mvnxnIU7">heterojunction</a> for optoelectronics. He also became a politician in his later life, serving in the <a href="/facts/Lower_house/kxk4o5B7">lower house</a> of the <a href="/facts/Federal_Assembly_(Russia)/zuJkAF3P">Russian parliament</a>, the <a href="/facts/State_Duma/vhYWnlqL">State Duma</a>, as a member of <a href="/facts/Communist_Party_of_the_Russian_Federation/AtdtwxUP">the Communist Party</a> from 1995. </p>