Alferov was born in Vitsebsk, USSR (now Belarus (Belorussia)). He is a Nobel laureate in physics for 2000 together with Herbert Kroemer[?] and Jack S Kilby[?].
... are the voiced and voiceless h (the voiceless h, called the visarga[?], tends to repeat the preceding vowel after itself) and the anusvaara, which often appear ...