"Date: Tuesday, October 10, 2000 (11:45 a.m. at the earliest)
Prize: PHYSICS
Awarding institution: The Royal Swedish Academy of
Sciences
And the winners are...
Zhores I. Alferov, and Herbert Kroemer
"for developing semiconductor heterostructures used in
high-speed- and opto-electronics"
and
Jack S. Kilby
"for his part in the invention of the integrated circuit". "
Zhores Ivanovich ALFEROV was born in Vitebsk
(Byelorussia, USSR) on March 15, 1930. He graduated
(1952) from the Department of Electronics of V.I.Ulyanov
(Lenin) Electrotechnical Institute in Leningrad. From 1953 to
date he has been a member of the Scientific staff of the Ioffe
Physico-Technical Institute. He earned scientific degrees:
candidate of science in technology (1961) and doctor of science
in physics and mathematics (1970); both from Ioffe Institute. In
1970-1971 he spent 6 months as visiting scientist at the
University of Illinois. Since 1962 he has been working in the
area of III-V semiconductor heterostructures. For his research
in this area Alferov was awarded with many national and
international awards, and honorary membership. Zh. Alferov is
the author of three books, more than 300 scientific articles and
50 inventions in semiconductor technology.
Current positions:
Director of the Ioffe Institute (1987)
Vice-President of the Russian Academy of Sciences (1991)
President of the St Petersburg Scientific Center of the Russian
Academy of Sciences (1991)
Awards:
Franklin Institute Ballantyne Medal (U.S.A., 1971)
Lenin Prize (USSR, 1972)
Hewlett-Packard Europhysics Prize (1978)
State Prize (USSR, 1984)
GaAs Symposium Award (1987)
H.Welker Medal (1987)
A.P.Karpinskii Prize (Germany, 1989)
Honorary Membership:
Academician (a full member) of the Russian Academy of
Sciences (1979)
Life Fellow of the Franklin Institute (U.S.A., 1971)
Foreign Member of the German Academy of Sciences
(1987)
Honorable Professor of the Havana University (Cuba,
1987)
Foreign Member of the Polish Academy of Sciences
(1988)
Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Engineering
(U.S.A., 1990)
Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Sciences
(U.S.A., 1990).
Nobil Site and A.F.Ioffe PTI Sankt-Peterburg
