Artem Alikhanian | |
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Born | |
Died | 25 February 1978 Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union | (aged 69)
Alma mater | Leningrad State University |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Physics |
Institutions | Yerevan 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]