Artem Alikhanian, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Artem Alikhanian

Soviet Armenian physicist

Date of Birth: 11-Jun-1908

Place of Birth: Tbilisi, Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic, Georgia

Date of Death: 25-Feb-1978

Profession: physicist, inventor, academic, nuclear physicist

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

Artem Isaakovich Alikhanian (Armenian: ????? ?????????, Russian: ????? ????????? ?????????, 24 June 1908 – 25 February 1978) was a Soviet Armenian physicist, one of the founders and first director of the Yerevan Physics Institute, a correspondent member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (1946), academic of the Armenian Academy of Sciences.
With Pyotr Kapitsa, Lev Landau, Igor Kurchatov, Abraham Alikhanov and others, he laid the foundations of nuclear physics in the Soviet Union.
He is known as the "father of Armenian physics".