<span style="color: #222222;">Zhores Alferov, a Russian physicist and Nobel Prize laureate, has died today.&nbsp; </span><br />” <br />” <span style="color: #222222;">He was 88. His death was announced today by the State Duma, the lower house of the Russian parliament, where Alferov had been a deputy since 1995.&nbsp;</span><br />” <br />” <span style="color: #222222;">In 2000, Alferov received the Nobel Prize in Physics together with US scientists Jack Kilby and Herbert Kroemer, for developing semiconductor heterostructures used in high-speed-and optoelectronics. </span><br />” <br />” <span style="color: #222222;">He was elected a corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences in 1972, and a full member in 1979.</span><br />” <br />” <span style="color: #222222;">Russian President Vladimir Putin has expressed deep condolences on the death of Nobel Prize winner Academician Zhores Alferov, noting his tremendous contribution to Russian and global science.</span><br />” <br />” &nbsp;