Artem Alikhanian
Soviet Armenian physicist (1908-1978) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Artem Alikhanian (Armenian: Արտեմ Ալիխանյան, Russian: Артём Исаакович Алиханьян, 24 June 1908 – 25 February 1978) was a Soviet and Armenian physicist, one of the founders and first director of the Yerevan Physics Institute, a correspondent member of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union (1946), academic of the Armenian National Academy of Sciences. With Pyotr Kapitsa, Lev Landau, Igor Kurchatov, Abram Alikhanov and others, he laid the foundations of nuclear physics in the Soviet Union.[1] He is known as the "father of Armenian physics".[1]
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Artem Alikhanian | |
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Արտեմ Ալիխանյան | |
Born | (1908-06-24)24 June 1908 |
Died | 25 February 1978(1978-02-25) (aged 69) |
Nationality | Armenian |
Citizenship | Soviet |
Alma mater | Leningrad State University |
Awards | Lenin Prize (1970) Stalin Prize (1941, 1948) Order of the Red Banner of Labour (2) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | physics |
Institutions | Yerevan Physics Institute |
Doctoral students | Boris Dolgoshein [ru], Alevtina Shmeleva |
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