PHYSICIST

Artem Alikhanian

1908 - 1978

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Artem 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Artem Alikhanian has received more than 35,737 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Artem Alikhanian is the 544th most popular physicist (up from 579th in 2019), the 80th most popular biography from Azerbaijan (up from 87th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Azerbaijani Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Artem Alikhanian ranks 544 out of 851Before him are Knut Ångström, Dmitri Ivanenko, Abraham Alikhanov, Zygmunt Florenty Wróblewski, John Sealy Townsend, and Alfred Perot. After him are Heinz von Foerster, Norman Holter, Lev Artsimovich, C. P. Snow, Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis, and Theodore Lyman IV.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1908, Artem Alikhanian ranks 195Before him are Doria Shafik, Elliott Carter, Krystyna Skarbek, Erik Lundqvist, Sucheta Kriplani, and Jacques Herbrand. After him are Gisèle Freund, Don Bradman, Gualberto Villarroel, Ed Heinemann, Gideon Ståhlberg, and Joseph Keilberth. Among people deceased in 1978, Artem Alikhanian ranks 128Before him are Rudolf Svensson, Juan Evaristo, Carlos Riolfo, Franz Bäke, Jerzy Kuryłowicz, and Bob Crane. After him are Robert Menzies, Liane Augustin, Charles Best, Claude Dauphin, Gene Tunney, and Jean Nicolas.

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In Azerbaijan

Among people born in Azerbaijan, Artem Alikhanian ranks 80 out of 232Before him are Sattar Bahlulzade (1909), Tahir Salahov (1928), Mirza Davud Huseynov (1894), Molla Panah Vagif (1717), Abraham Alikhanov (1904), and Vladimir Dekanozov (1898). After him are Eduard Markarov (1942), Gazanfar Musabekov (1888), Abbasgulu Bakikhanov (1794), Surat Huseynov (1959), Georges Candilis (1913), and Mikayil Mushfig (1908).

Among PHYSICISTS In Azerbaijan

Among physicists born in Azerbaijan, Artem Alikhanian ranks 3Before him are Lev Landau (1908), and Abraham Alikhanov (1904).