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Remembering Zhores Alferov

Father of the semiconductor laser, Nobel Prize laureate and director of the Ioffe Institute in St Petersburg, Zhores Alferov was a much-loved scientist and educator whose research changed the modern world.

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Ivanov, S. Remembering Zhores Alferov. Nat. Photonics 13, 657–659 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41566-019-0525-0

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