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Artem Alichanjan
1908 – 1978
About this person
Wikipedia SummaryArtem Isaak Alikhanian 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. He is known as the "father of Armenian physics".
Biographical & Professional Details
Date of birth
June 11, 1908
Tbilisi
Date of death
February 25, 1978
Moscow
Citizenship
Russian Empire · Soviet Union
Occupations & fields
physicistacademicinventornuclear physicist
Awards & honours
Stalin Prize, 2nd degreeDeserved scientist of ArmSSROrder of the Red Banner of LabourLenin PrizeCouncil of Ministers of the Soviet Union PrizeState Stalin Prize, 1st degree
- Field and occupation
- arménsko-sovětský fyzik a vysokoškolský pedagog
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