VITEBSK, 15 March (BelTA) – Students from Vitebsk and Chashniki (Vitebsk Oblast) have become the prize-winners of the Zhores Alferov Fund for Support of Education and Science, BelTA learnt from Valentina Shirokova, director of Vitebsk gymnasium No1. The main goal of the fund is the support of fundamental research in physics. The material base of the fund is a part of the Nobel Prize which was presented to Zhores Alferov in 2000. The famous physicist has invited winners of international conferences, prize-winners of the national physics and chemistry Olympiads Anton Putov, Lubov Yudasina (Vitebsk) and Nikita Dubko (Chashniki) not only to participate in the solemn ceremony of Fund’s prizes presentation but in the scientific symposium “Heterostructures: Fundamental Research and Innovation Prospects” which will be held in St. Petersburg on 16-17 March. According to Valentina Shirokova, during a visit to Vitebsk, Zhores Alferov visited Vitebsk gymnasium No1 and called it as “an example in organization of academic activity”. Famous Russian physicist, a winner of 2000 Nobel Prize in Physics, Zhores Alferov was born in Belarusian Vitebsk on 15 March 1930. Since 1962 he has been working in the area of semiconductor heterostructures. His contributions to physics and technology of semiconductor heterostructures, especially investigations of injection properties, development of lasers, solar cells, LED's, and epitaxy processes have led to the creation of modern heterostructure physics and electronics.

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