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Dmitry Medvedev congratulated physicist Zhores Alferov on his 80th birthday

March 15, 2010, The Kremlin, Moscow

The President met with Mr Alferov, vice president of the Russian Academy of Sciences and winner of the 2000 Nobel Prize in Physics, presented him with a state decoration, and discussed scientific development in Russia with him.

Mr Alferov was awarded the Order for Services to the Fatherland, IV degree, by Presidential Executive Order, thus becoming a full cavalier of this order, which has four degrees.

March 15, 2010, The Kremlin, Moscow