Awards and Prizes
The Nobel Prize Committee awarded the 2000 Nobel Prize for Physics to Zhores Alferov as the leader of the Soviet team to discover and invent the room temperature diode laser.
In 1972, Dr. Garbuzov, together with Dr. Alferov and other colleagues, was awarded the Lenin Prize, the highest civilian award in the Soviet Union of that era. The Lenin Prize's citation was "Fundamental Research of Heterojunctions in Semiconductors and Development of Novel Devices on their Bases."
Garbuzov received, with his team, the 1987 State Prize, the second highest prize awarded within the Soviet Union.
In 1991 Garbuzov was honored by becoming a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
Garbuzov received the Humboldt Prize in 1992.
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