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March 1, 2019
TheRussian Communist party has said on Saturday that the 2000 Nobel Prize winnerin physics and a member of Russia’s parliament, Zhores Alferov, has died aged88 in St Petersburg.
Alferovshared the nearly 1 million dollar award, which recognised his research work inthe 1970s in information technology, which paved the way for computers, CD players and mobile telephones, withtwo U.S. scientists Herbert Kroemer and Jack Kilby.
Astaunch believer in communism, Alferov was born in 1930 in Belarus, then partof the Soviet Union.
Hewas a member of the party faction in the Duma, Russia’s lower house ofparliament.
Hiswork won him many scientific awards and he was an honorary member of researchinstitutions including the American National Academy of Sciences.
He was the first Russian to win a Nobel Prize since Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev won the peace prize in 1990.