Artyom Alikhanian
Soviet Armenian physicist
Died when: 69 years 246 days (836 months)Star Sign: Cancer
Artyom Isaakovich Alikhanian (Armenian: ????? ?????????, Russian: ????? ????????? ?????????, 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.
He is known as the "father of Armenian physics".
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