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Zhores Ivanovich Alferov
(15 Mar 1930 - )
Russian physicist in the field of solid state physics, who shared (with Bert Kroemer and Jack St. Clair Kilby) the 2000 Nobel Prize in Physics “for developing semiconductor heterostructures used in high-speed- and opto-electronics.”
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Science Quotes by Zhores Ivanovich Alferov (1 quote)
If Russia is to be a great power, it will be, not because of its nuclear potential, faith in God or the president, or Western investment, but thanks to the labor of the nation, faith in knowledge and science and the maintenance and development of scientific potential and education.
— Zhores Ivanovich Alferov
Quoted in Darryl J. Leiter, Sharon Leiter, A to Z of physicists (2003), 3.
See also:
- Lenin's Laureate: Zhores Alferov's Life in Communist Science, by Paul R. Josephson. - book suggestion.
- Booklist for Zhores I. Alferov.
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
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