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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 Armenian astrophysicist and science administrator. One of the 20th century's top 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 55,821 page views. His biography is available in 58 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 54 in 2019). Victor Ambartsumian is the 71st most popular astronomer (up from 89th in 2019), the 26th most popular biography from Georgia (down from 24th 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 71 out of 531Before him are Gerard Kuiper, Riccardo Giacconi, Heinrich Louis d'Arrest, George Darwin, Albert Marth, and William Lassell. After him are Abu Hanifa Dinawari, Max Wolf, Russell Alan Hulse, Abū Ishāq Ibrāhīm al-Zarqālī, Stephen Gray, and Petrus Plancius.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1908, Victor Ambartsumian ranks 47Before him are Joseph Rotblat, Alfred Hershey, Günther Prien, Infante Jaime, Duke of Segovia, Arthur Adamov, and Józef Gosławski. After him are Martha Gellhorn, Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden, Rex Harrison, Robert Merle, Mercè Rodoreda, and Bernard Lee. Among people deceased in 1996, Victor Ambartsumian ranks 39Before him are Nevill Francis Mott, Abdus Salam, Masaki Kobayashi, António de Spínola, Ademir de Menezes, and Claudette Colbert. After him are George Davis Snell, Helmut Schön, Gladwyn Jebb, Virginia Henderson, Georges Duby, and William Vickrey.

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In Georgia

Among people born in Georgia, Victor Ambartsumian ranks 26 out of 342Before him are Pharnavaz I of Iberia (-326), Sergei Witte (1849), Sayat-Nova (1712), Herbert Backe (1896), Giya Kancheli (1935), and Vakhtang I of Iberia (440). After him are Rusudan of Georgia (1194), Grand Duke Alexander Mikhailovich of Russia (1866), Kato Svanidze (1885), Nicholas Marr (1864), Ilia Chavchavadze (1837), and Besarion Jughashvili (1850).

Among ASTRONOMERS In Georgia

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