Reviews Lenin’s Laureate by Paul R. Josephson Share this:EmailFacebookTwitterPinterestPocketRedditPrint By Science News November 19, 2010 at 11:22 am A historian explores Soviet science in this biography of Zhores Alferov, who won a Nobel Prize for discovering the heterojunction used in LEDs. LENIN’S LAUREATE BY PAUL R. JOSEPHSON MIT, 2010, 307 p., $29.95.