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Victor Ambartsumian

1908 - 1996

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Viktor Amazaspovich Ambartsumian (Russian: Виктор Амазаспович Амбарцумян; Armenian: Վիկտոր Համազասպի Համբարձումյան, Viktor Hamazaspi Hambardzumyan; 18 September [O.S. 5 September] 1908 – 12 August 1996) was a Soviet and Armenian astrophysicist and science administrator. One of the 20th century's leading astronomers, he is widely regarded as the founder of theoretical astrophysics in the Soviet Union. Educated at Leningrad State University (LSU) and the Pulkovo Observatory, Ambartsumian taught at LSU and founded the Soviet Union's first department of astrophysics there in 1934. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Victor Ambartsumian has received more than 57,944 page views. His biography is available in 60 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 58 in 2019). Victor Ambartsumian is the 86th most popular astronomer (down from 71st in 2019), the 29th most popular biography from Georgia (down from 26th in 2019) and the most popular Georgian Astronomer.

Victor Ambartsumian was a Russian-Armenian astronomer who was most famous for discovering the Ambartsumian galaxies.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Victor Ambartsumian ranks 86 out of 644. Before him are Russell Alan Hulse, Abū Ishāq Ibrāhīm al-Zarqālī, Percival Lowell, Lewis A. Swift, Ejnar Hertzsprung, and Giovanni Battista Riccioli. After him are Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Kathir al-Farghani, Edward Emerson Barnard, Joseph Hooton Taylor Jr., Girolamo Fracastoro, Johann Palisa, and Karl Ludwig Hencke.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1908, Victor Ambartsumian ranks 48. Before him are Günther Prien, John Kenneth Galbraith, Alfred Hershey, Chivu Stoica, Infante Jaime, Duke of Segovia, and Józef Gosławski. After him are Giovanni Leone, Balthus, Lita Grey, Victor Weisskopf, Robert Merle, and Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden. Among people deceased in 1996, Victor Ambartsumian ranks 38. Before him are Andreas Papandreou, Gladwyn Jebb, Masaki Kobayashi, Nicu Ceaușescu, Mohammad Najibullah, and Mohamed Farrah Aidid. After him are William Vickrey, António de Spínola, Shūsaku Endō, Claudette Colbert, Georges Duby, and Alain Poher.

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In Georgia

Among people born in Georgia, Victor Ambartsumian ranks 29 out of 406. Before him are Pharnavaz I of Iberia (-326), Giya Kancheli (1935), Kato Svanidze (1885), Herbert Backe (1896), Keke Geladze (1858), and Bagrat III of Georgia (960). After him are Vakhtang I of Iberia (440), Nicholas Marr (1864), Stepan Shaumian (1878), Besarion Jughashvili (1850), Ilia Chavchavadze (1837), and Heraclius II of Georgia (1720).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In Georgia

Among astronomers born in Georgia, Victor Ambartsumian ranks 1. After him are Grigory Neujmin (1886), and Benjamin Markarian (1913).

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