Prof. Zhores Ivanovich Alferov is a Russian physicist and academic who contributed significantly to the creation of modern heterostructure physics and electronics. He is an inventor of the heterotransistor and the winner of 2000 Nobel Prize in Physics. He is also a Russian politician and has been a member of the Russian State Parliament, the Duma, since 1995. Lately, he has become one of the most influential members of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation.
Nobel Laureates to the CUSAT campuses, The Nobel Laureates visiting programme is a unique programme, intending to take our academic standards to the global level.
