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PHYSICIST

Zhores Alferov

1930 - 2019

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Zhores Ivanovich Alferov (Russian: Жоре́с Ива́нович Алфёров, IPA: [ʐɐˈrɛs ɨˈvanəvʲɪtɕ ɐlˈfʲɵrəf]; Belarusian: Жарэс Іва́навіч Алфёраў; 15 March 1930 – 1 March 2019) was a Soviet and Russian physicist and academic who contributed significantly to the creation of modern heterostructure physics and electronics. He shared the 2000 Nobel Prize in Physics for the development of the semiconductor heterojunction for optoelectronics. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Zhores Alferov has received more than 316,743 page views. His biography is available in 72 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 71 in 2019). Zhores Alferov is the 277th most popular physicist (down from 263rd in 2019), the 36th most popular biography from Belarus (down from 30th in 2019) and the most popular Belarusian Physicist.

Zhores Alferov is most famous for his invention of the heterostructure field-effect transistor, which is a type of semiconductor device used in modern electronics.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 72

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.37

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 6.25

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Zhores Alferov ranks 277 out of 717. Before him are Andre Geim, Brian Josephson, John Tyndall, Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier, Masatoshi Koshiba, and Leo Esaki. After him are Otto Robert Frisch, Jan Ingenhousz, Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker, Antoine César Becquerel, Giovanni Battista Venturi, and Ivar Giaever.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1930, Zhores Alferov ranks 79. Before him are Richard Donner, Sonia Rykiel, Gaafar Nimeiry, Ben Gazzara, Buck Henry, and Michel Serres. After him are Chinua Achebe, Omara Portuondo, Irinej, Serbian Patriarch, Pavel Popovich, Michal Kováč, and Sonny Rollins. Among people deceased in 2019, Zhores Alferov ranks 63. Before him are Rosamunde Pilcher, Sigmund Jähn, Max Wright, Michael Atiyah, Prem Tinsulanonda, and Michel Serres. After him are Luke Perry, Yury Luzhkov, Danny Aiello, Roger Etchegaray, Paul Greengard, and Fernando de la Rúa.

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In Belarus

Among people born in Belarus, Zhores Alferov ranks 36 out of 330. Before him are Alexander Parvus (1867), Maria Kaczyńska (1942), Stanisław Moniuszko (1819), Isser Harel (1912), Rogneda of Polotsk (966), and Yakub Kolas (1882). After him are Elena Glinskaya (1510), Bronislava Nijinska (1891), Nikolay Krestinsky (1883), Olga Korbut (1955), Sophia of Minsk (1140), and Ivan Yakubovsky (1912).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Belarus

Among physicists born in Belarus, Zhores Alferov ranks 1. After him are Otto Schmidt (1891), Yakov Zeldovich (1914), Leonid Mandelstam (1879), and Zygmunt Florenty Wróblewski (1845).

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