By Li Han

Staff Writer of the Tsinghua News Center

Professor Zhores I. Alferov, 2000 Nobel Laureate in Physics and Vice President of the USSR (Russian) Academy of Sciences, visited Tsinghua November 10 and delivered a speech on“Albert Einstein and the Development of Quantum Electronics.”

Prior to the speech, held in the main building, Tsinghua Vice President Xie Weihe had a friendly talk with Professor Alferov, exchanging ideas on student development.

In his speech, Professor Alferov first gave a brief introduction of several papers published by Albert Einstein in 1905. He talked about the influence of Einstein’s research on the development of quantum electronics.

Students from Tsinghua, Peking University, China Agricultural University, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing Jiaotong University, and Beijing University of Aeronautics & Astronautics attended the speech.

Professor Alferov was born in Vitebsk, Belorussia, USSR, on March 15, 1930. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in physics in 2000 for developing semiconductor heterostructures used in high-speed- and opto-electronics.