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Zhores Ivanovich Alferov

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Zhores Ivanovich Alferov (also Alfyorov) (Russian: Жоре́с Ива́нович Алфёров) (born March 15 1930) is a Russian physicist with a Belarusian (Byelorussian) origin.

Alferov was born in Vitsebsk, USSR (now Belarus (Belorussia)). He is a Nobel laureate in physics for 2000 together with Herbert Kroemer and Jack Kilby.