Award
Stalin Prize, 2nd degree
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Artyom Alikhanian
1908-06-11 – 1978-02-25
Life & Legacy
Artem Isaak 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".
Occupation & Career
physicist, academic, inventor, nuclear physicist
Education
Faculty of Physics and Mathematics of the Saint Petersburg University
Accomplishments, Inventions & Publications
Stalin Prize, 2nd degree; Deserved scientist of ArmSSR; Order of the Red Banner of Labour; Lenin Prize; Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union Prize; State Stalin Prize, 1st degree
Legacy Highlights
Honors & Awards
Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union Prize · Deserved scientist of ArmSSR · Lenin Prize · Order of the Red Banner of Labour · Stalin Prize, 2nd degree · State Stalin Prize, 1st degree
Employer
Ioffe Institute · National Research Nuclear University · Yerevan Physics Institute
Organizations & Memberships
Academy of Sciences of the USSR · National Academy of Sciences of Armenia
Education & Institutions
Faculty of Physics and Mathematics of the Saint Petersburg University
Verified Legacy Record
Award
Deserved scientist of ArmSSR
Source: Wikidata population candidate Q2471271 · wikidata
Award
Order of the Red Banner of Labour
Source: Wikidata population candidate Q2471271 · wikidata
Award
Lenin Prize
Source: Wikidata population candidate Q2471271 · wikidata
Award
Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union Prize
Source: Wikidata population candidate Q2471271 · wikidata
Award
State Stalin Prize, 1st degree
Source: Wikidata population candidate Q2471271 · wikidata
Family Father
Isahak Alikhanyan
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Family Sibling
Abraham Alikhanov
Source: Wikidata population candidate Q2471271 · wikidata
Family Sibling
Sos Alikhanian
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Sources & Provenance
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