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Artem Alikhanian

1908 - 1978

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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. He is known as the "father of Armenian physics". Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Artem Alikhanian is the 591st most popular physicist (down from 544th in 2019), the 83rd most popular biography from Azerbaijan (down from 80th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Azerbaijani Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Artem Alikhanian ranks 591 out of 851. Before him are Otto Lehmann, Sumio Iijima, Michael Berry, Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis, Kenneth Bainbridge, and John Henry Schwarz. After him are Frank J. Tipler, John D. Barrow, Evelyn Fox Keller, Friedrich Hasenöhrl, Vladimir Veksler, and Henry Augustus Rowland.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1908, Artem Alikhanian ranks 222. Before him are Lauri Lehtinen, Ed Heinemann, Jagjivan Ram, Lew Ayres, Gustavo Marzi, and Ludwig Goldbrunner. After him are Harald Reinl, Frol Kozlov, Arturo de Córdova, Vivian Fuchs, Mohammad Natsir, and Helen Jacobs. Among people deceased in 1978, Artem Alikhanian ranks 157. Before him are Bob Crane, Leigh Brackett, Eric Frank Russell, Paul Yoshigoro Taguchi, Jānis Daliņš, and Leo Ryan. After him are Kathleen Kenyon, Luo Ruiqing, Claude Dauphin, Alexander Wetmore, Alfred Müller-Armack, and Theodor Tolsdorff.

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In Azerbaijan

Among people born in Azerbaijan, Artem Alikhanian ranks 83 out of 232. Before him are Nasib Yusifbeyli (1881), Huseyn Javid (1882), Mirza Khazar (1947), Molla Panah Vagif (1717), Anar Rzayev (1938), and Aliagha Shikhlinski (1863). After him are Ayna Sultanova (1895), Sakina Akhundzadeh (1865), Galina Bystrova (1934), Aziza Mustafa Zadeh (1969), Natallia Arsiennieva (1903), and Aydin Ibrahimov (1938).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Azerbaijan

Among physicists born in Azerbaijan, Artem Alikhanian ranks 2. Before him are Lev Landau (1908). After him are Abraham Alikhanov (1904).

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