Alexander Efros
Alexander Efros · Science & Medicine
Physicist (semiconductor and quantum dot theory)
Soviet Union · Germany · United States
Alexander Efros is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Physicist (semiconductor and quantum dot theory)
Alexander L. Efros is a Russian-American theoretical physicist, a co-discoverer of the quantum-confinement physics of semiconductor nanocrystals, or quantum dots. In 1982, working in Leningrad, he published a foundational theory explaining how confining electrons in these tiny crystals produces size-dependent optical properties, work that underpinned the field later recognized by the 2023 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He has long been a physicist at the U.S.
Naval Research Laboratory. His personal religious or ethnic background is not documented in available biographical sources. He is listed among Jewish physicists documented by Jinfo.
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Physicist (semiconductor and quantum dot theory)
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics
