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Also Known As Zhores Ivanovich Alfyorov
Born March 15, 1930 • Vitsyebsk • Soviet Union • (Birthday tomorrow)
Died March 1, 2019 (aged 88) • St. Petersburg • Russia
Awards And Honors Nobel Prize (2000)
Subjects Of Study heterostructure

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