"Being a prominent scientist, founder and leader of new promising trends in physics, you have gained respect and acknowledgement both in Russia and abroad. Your audacious scientific search yielded unique and impressive results which expanded the limits of cognition and found a wide practical use. Your large-scale research work has been contributing to the growth of the authority and prestige of the Russian scientific school. Your productive public and teaching activities are widely known, as well. Sharing your rich experience with a new generation of physicists, you teach them thoughtful and creative approaches to the solution of most difficult problems," reads Vladimir Putin's message.
The President conferred the Order For the Services to the Fatherland of the 1st calls on Zhores Alferov.
