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Lenin’s Laureate

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By Paul R. Josephson

Web edition: November 19, 2010
Print edition: December 4, 2010; Vol.178 #12 (p. 32)

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Lenin’s Laureate by Paul R. Josephson

A historian explores Soviet science in this biography of Zhores Alferov, who won a Nobel Prize for discovering the heterojunction used in LEDs.

MIT, 2010, 307 p., $29.95.

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