Russian physicist and winner of the 2000 Nobel Prize in Physics for the invention of the heterotransistor that has applications in semiconductor lasers, solar cells and transistors.
Zhores Alferov was born on 15 March, 1930
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Shipment of Apple watch begins
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Google increases space on Gmail
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First cloned dog born
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Hubble Space Telescope launched
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Second .com domain name registered
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First Chinese satellite
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First human to die in a space mission
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