The Global Energy Prize is an international award in the field of energy industry which is given for "outstanding scientific research and scientific-technical developments in the field of energy which promote greater efficiency and environmental security for energy sources on Earth in the interests of all mankind".
Global Energy Prize
Announcement of 2020 award winners in the Tsiolkovsky State Museum of the History of Cosmonautics in Kaluga, Russia
Rae Kwon Chung, Chairman of the International Award Committee in 2019
The statuettes given to laureates (2019)
Zhores Ivanovich Alferov was a Soviet and Russian physicist and academic who contributed significantly to the creation of modern heterostructure physics and electronics. He shared the 2000 Nobel Prize in Physics for the development of the semiconductor heterojunction for optoelectronics. He also became a politician in his later life, serving in the lower house of the Russian parliament, the State Duma, as a member of the Communist Party from 1995.
Alferov in 2012
Alferov with Vladimir Putin
Alferov on a 2020 stamp of Russia
Alferov speaking at the opening of the Nanotechnology International Forum in Moscow, November 2010.