# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/garik-israelyan
# Generated: 2026-08-14T22:47:05.402Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/garik-israelyan"
name: "Garik Israelyan"
slug: "garik-israelyan"
description: "Garik Israelian is an Armenian-Spanish astrophysicist and co-founder of the Starmus Festival. In 1999, Israelian and colleagues presented the first observational evidence that supernova explosions were responsible for the formation of stellar-mass black holes."
tagline: "Armenian physicist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Garik_Israelian.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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profileType:
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  slug: "scientist"
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birthDate: "1963"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  momentum:             10.5
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump