Artem Alikhanian

Artem Alikhanian
Born(1908-06-24)24 June 1908
Elizavetpol, Russian Empire
Died25 February 1978(1978-02-25) (aged 69)
Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Alma materLeningrad State University
Scientific career
FieldsPhysics
InstitutionsYerevan Physics Institute
Doctoral students

Artem Alikhanian (Russian: Артём Исаакович Алиханьян; Armenian: Արտեմ Ալիխանյան; 24 June 1908 – 25 February 1978) was a Soviet physicist of Armenian origin, 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]

  1. ^ a b Artem Alikhanian: the father of Armenian physics Archived 2015-01-21 at the Wayback Machine, CERN Courier, Vol. 48, N. 6, 2008, p. 41