# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/gurgen-askaryan
# Generated: 2026-08-15T04:59:24.594Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/gurgen-askaryan"
name: "Gurgen Askaryan"
slug: "gurgen-askaryan"
description: "Gurgen Ashotovich Askaryan was a prominent Soviet-Armenian physicist, known for his discovery of the self-focusing of light, pioneering studies of light–matter interactions, and the discovery and investigation of the interaction of high-energy particles with condensed matter."
tagline: "Soviet-Armenian plasma physicist (1928–1997)"
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birthDate: "1928-12-14"
deathDate: "1997-04-02"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
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    title: "গুর্গেন আস্কারিয়ান"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump