Zhores Alferov - Awards

Awards

This article incorporates information from the equivalent article on the Russian Wikipedia.

Russian and Soviet awards

• Order of Merit for the Fatherland:
  • 1st class (14 March 2005) - for outstanding contribution to the development of national science and active participation in legislative activities;
  • 2nd class (2000);
  • 3rd class (June 4, 1999) - for outstanding contribution to the development of national science and training of highly qualified personnel in connection with the 275th anniversary of the Russian Academy of Sciences;
  • 4th class (March 15, 2010) - for services to the state contribution to the development of national science and many years of fruitful activity
• Order of Lenin (1986)
• Order of the October Revolution (1980)
• Order of the Red Banner of Labour (1975)
• Order of the Badge of Honour (1959)
• State Prize of the Russian Federation (2001) in Science and Technology (August 5, 2002) for his work, "Fundamental studies of the formation and properties of heterostructures with quantum dots and the creation of lasers based on them"
• Lenin Prize (1972) - for basic research in semiconductors and heterojunction development of new devices based on them
• USSR State Prize (1984) - for developing isoperiodic heterostructures based on quaternary solid solutions of A3B5 semiconductor compounds

Foreign awards

• Order of Francisc Skorina (Belarus, 17 May 2001) - for his great personal contribution to the development of physical science, the organization of the Belarussian-Russian scientific and technical cooperation, strengthening the friendship between the peoples of Belarus and Russia
• Order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise, 5th class (Ukraine, 15 May 2003) - for personal contribution to the development of cooperation between Ukraine and the Russian Federation in the socio-economic and humanitarian spheres
• Officer of the Legion of Honour (France)

Other awards

• Nobel Prize in Physics (Sweden, 2000; with Herbert Kroemer and Jack Kilby) - for the development of semiconductor heterostructures for high-speed optoelectronics
• Nick Holonyak Award (Optical Society of U.S., 2000)
• Europhysics prize (European Physical Society, 1978) - for new works in the field of heterojunctions
• AP Karpinsky Prize (Germany, 1989) - for his contributions to physics and technology of heterostructures
• AF Ioffe award (RAN, 1996) - for work, "Photoelectric converters of solar radiation on the basis of heterostructures"
• Demidov Prize (Scientific Demidov Foundation, Russia, 1999)
• Kyoto Prize (Inamori Foundation, Japan, 2001) - for success in creating semiconductor lasers operating in continuous mode at room temperature - a pioneer step in optoelectronics
• Vernadsky Award (NAS, 2001)
• "Russian National Olympus". The title "living legend" (Russia, 2001)
• International Energy Prize "Global Energy" (Russia, 2005)
• H. Welker Gold Medal (1987) - for pioneering work on the theory and technology of devices based on III-V compounds of groups
• The Stuart Ballantine Medal (Franklin Institute, USA, 1971) - for the theoretical and experimental studies of double-heterostructure laser, which were created by laser light sources of small size, operating in continuous mode at room temperature
• Popov Gold Medal (Academy of Sciences, 1999)
• SPIE Gold Medal (2002)
• Award Symposium on GaAs (1987) - for pioneering work in semiconductor heterostructures based on III-V compounds and group development of diode lasers and photodiodes
• Awarded "Golden Plate" (Academy of Achievement, USA, 2002)
• XLIX Mendeleev Reader - 19 February 1993
• Honorary Professor of the medal and MIPT (2008)
• Honorary Doctor of the Russian-Armenian (Slavonic) University (State Educational Institution of the Russian-Armenian (Slavic) University, Armenia, 2011)