Juras Karlowitsch Požela#
| Sadly, this member passed away. | |
| Membership Number: | 1509 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHYSICS & ENGINEERING SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 1993 |
| Main Country of Residence: | LITHUANIA |
Juras Požela passed away November 20, 2014.
Positions Held
- 1992 President of the Lithuanian Department of the International Center for Science and Culture and Chief Scientist of the Institute of Semiconductors
- 1984 - 1992 President of the AN-LitSSR
- 1972 Vice-President of the AN-LitSSR
- 1968 Member of the AN-LitSSR
- 1967 - 1984 Director of the Institute for Semiconductors of AN-LitSSR
- 1964 Professor
- 1963 Director of Institute for Physics and Mathematics of the Academy of Sciences of the Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic (AN-LitSSR)
- 1956 Institute for Physics and Mathematics of the Academy of Sciences of the Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic (AN-LitSSR)
- 1956 to 1958 Research assistant at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology
Fields of Scholarship
- Semiconductor physics
Honours and Awards
- 1971 Order of the October Revolution
- 1975 and 1981 Order of the Red Banner of Labor
- 1978 Lenin Prize for theoretical and experimental investigations into the generation and amplification of microwaves during avalanche ionization in semiconductors and the development of the novel IMPATT diode
- 1985 Hero of Socialist Labor
- 1985 Order of Lenin
- 1988 USSR State Prize for basic research and organization of serial production of semiconductor magnetic control devices
- 1991 Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts
- 1992 Member of the USSR Academy of Sciences
- 2000 Order of Friendship
- Two Lithuanian state prizes in the field of science
