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Victor Ambartsumian

1908 - 1996

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Viktor Amazaspovich Ambartsumian (Russian: Виктор Амазаспович Амбарцумян; Armenian: Վիկտոր Համազասպի Համբարձումյան, Viktor Hamazaspi Hambardzumyan; 18 September [O.S. 5 September] 1908 – 12 August 1996) was a Soviet and Armenian astrophysicist and science administrator. One of the 20th century's leading astronomers, he is widely regarded as the founder of theoretical astrophysics in the Soviet Union. Educated at Leningrad State University (LSU) and the Pulkovo Observatory, Ambartsumian taught at LSU and founded the Soviet Union's first department of astrophysics there in 1934. He subsequently moved to Soviet Armenia, where he founded the Byurakan Observatory in 1946. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Victor Ambartsumian is the 133rd most popular astronomer (down from 86th in 2019), the 35th most popular biography from Georgia (down from 29th in 2019) and the most popular Georgian Astronomer.

Victor Ambartsumian was a Russian-Armenian astronomer who was most famous for discovering the Ambartsumian galaxies.

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Among astronomers, Victor Ambartsumian ranks 133 out of 644. Before him are Svetlana Gerasimenko, E. M. Antoniadi, Didier Queloz, Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Kathir al-Farghani, Reinhard Genzel, and Johann Hieronymus Schröter. After him are Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc, Wilhelm von Biela, Liisi Oterma, Jean Chacornac, Eric Walter Elst, and Mary Somerville.

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Among people born in 1908, Victor Ambartsumian ranks 64. Before him are Dmitry Ustinov, Giovanni Leone, Maria Helena Vieira da Silva, Annemarie Schwarzenbach, Amintore Fanfani, and Valentin Glushko. After him are Masaru Ibuka, Saizo Saito, Maria Prymachenko, Robert Merle, Bjarni Benediktsson, and Martha Gellhorn. Among people deceased in 1996, Victor Ambartsumian ranks 58. Before him are Nicu Ceaușescu, František Plánička, Timothy Leary, Koichi Oita, Piet Hein, and Georges Duby. After him are Obdulio Varela, Pat Brown, Rafael Kubelík, Mohamed Farrah Aidid, Mieczysław Weinberg, and Leonor Fini.

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In Georgia

Among people born in Georgia, Victor Ambartsumian ranks 35 out of 406. Before him are Nakşidil Sultan (1768), Besarion Jughashvili (1850), Ilia Chavchavadze (1837), Nicholas Marr (1864), George III of Georgia (1200), and Mirian III of Iberia (265). After him are Grand Duke Alexander Mikhailovich of Russia (1866), Otar Iosseliani (1934), Heraclius II of Georgia (1720), Nariman Narimanov (1870), Rashid Behbudov (1915), and George XII of Georgia (1746).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In Georgia

Among astronomers born in Georgia, Victor Ambartsumian ranks 1. After him are Grigory Neujmin (1886), and Benjamin Markarian (1913).

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