The Kremlin and the White House have congratulated Zhores Alferov, a pioneering Soviet physicist and co-chair of Skolkovo’s Scientific Advisory Council, on his 85th birthday.
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President Vladimir Putin sent a telegram noting the contribution of the Nobel prize winner to “expanding the boundaries of knowledge” and “scientific thinking.”
Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, who also holds a position at Skolkovo as the chairman of the board of trustees, thanked Alferov for his “active participation in the work of the Skolkovo Innvation Center and the St. Petersburg Academic University.”
“Colleagues in the State Duma have learned from you how to mount a strong and well-argued defense of their position,” Medvedev noted. Alferov is a Communist lawmaker in the lower house of parliament.
He won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2000, along with Herbert Kroemer and Jack Kilby, for the development of semiconductor heterostructures for high-speed optoelectronics.