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Artyom Alikhanian

Soviet Armenian physicist (1908-1978) · Russia · On the map · Scientists · Died at 69

Artem Isaak Alikhanian 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.

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1978Died25 February 19781973Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union PrizeAward1970Lenin PrizeAward1968Order of the Red Banner of LabourAward1967Deserved scientist of ArmSSRAward1953State Stalin Prize, 1st degreeAward1948State Stalin Prize, 1st degreeAward1945Order of the Red Banner of LabourAward1941Stalin Prize, 2nd degreeAward1908Born11 June 1908

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Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union Prize1973
Lenin Prize1970
Order of the Red Banner of Labour1968
Deserved scientist of ArmSSR1967
State Stalin Prize, 1st degree1953
State Stalin Prize, 1st degree1948
Order of the Red Banner of Labour1945
Stalin Prize, 2nd degree1941

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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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Russia
Category
Scientists
Type
Scientist
Status
Deceased
Dates
Lived 1908 to 1978 · aged 69