Ambartsumian

British

/ amˌbartsʊmˈjɑn /

noun

Viktor A ( mazaspovich ). 1908–96, Armenian astrophysicist, renowned for his description of radio sources as explosions in the core of galaxies

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What does Marie Curie have in common with the bacteriologist Hideyo Noguchi and the theoretical astrophysicist Victor Ambartsumian?

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The observatory's head: Viktor Ambartsumian, the first Soviet scientist since World War II to become a foreign honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

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