What prize in Physics has the inventor of the heterotransistor, who is the head of the St Petersburg Academic University won?
Saint Petersburg Academic University St Petersburg Academic University — Nanotechnology Research and Education Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences (the Academic University, SPbAU RAS) was founded in 1997 as Research and Education Center of the Ioffe Institute to integrate science and education in the field of physics and information technologies. It is the only university in the Russian Academy of Sciences. The word "Academic" in its name stems from the Academy of Sciences, the organization that unites numerous research institutes in Russia. It was initiated by the director of the Ioffe Institute, vice-president of the RAS Academician and Nobel prize winner Zhores Alferov, who has been its head up to the present.
Vasily Vladimirovich Petrov Vasily Vladimirovich Petrov (Russian: Василий Владимирович Петров ) (19 July [O.S. 8 July] 1761 – 15 August 1834) was a Russian experimental physicist, self-taught electrical technician, academician of Russian Academy of Sciences (since 1809; Corresponding member since 1802).