1. Abram Alikhanov's younger brother, Artem Alikhanian, was a noted physicist.
22 Facts About Abram Alikhanov
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In 1923 Abram Alikhanov moved to Leningrad and enrolled in the chemistry department of the Polytechnic Institute.
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In 1927 Abram Alikhanov began working part-time at the Physical-Technical Institute in Leningrad as a researcher focusing on X-rays, X-ray diffraction, and solid-state physics.
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Abram Alikhanov began a long-time collaboration with his younger brother, Artem, and Lev Artsimovich in 1930.
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Abram Alikhanov switched to nuclear physics in 1933, following the discovery of the neutron and the positron in 1932.
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Abram Alikhanov's group studied pair production and gamma rays and made observations of positrons using Geiger counters.
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Abram Alikhanov's group studied scattering of fast electrons in matter and beta spectra of radioactive substances.
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In 1938 Abram Alikhanov discovered a new method of determining the rest mass of the neutrino using decay of the nuclei of Be.
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Abram Alikhanov was awarded a PhD in Physical and Mathematical Sciences in 1935.
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Abram Alikhanov planned to study cosmic rays, the only source of high-energy particles known at that time, in the Pamir Mountains in the summer of 1941 due to the approaching Nazi forces, Abram Alikhanov and the Institute for Physical Problems were evacuated to Kazan in October 1941.
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Between 1947 and 1951 Abram Alikhanov headed the Department of Structure of Matter at the Faculty of Physics and Technology of Moscow State University.
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In 1959 Abram Alikhanov led the design of 10 MW experimental research heavy-water reactors, which were built in China and Yugoslavia under his supervision.
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Between 1957 and 1960, following the Wu experiment, Abram Alikhanov oversaw the research on parity violation in beta decay.
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Abram Alikhanov had two children with his first wife, Anna Grigorievna Prokofieva, whom he married in 1925.
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Abram Alikhanov's son, Ruben, was a physicist, while his daughter, Seda, was a writer.
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Abram Alikhanov's second wife, Slava Solomonovna Roshal was a violinist.
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Abram Alikhanov resigned from his post as director of the ITEP in 1968.
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Abram Alikhanov died in Moscow on December 8,1970, at the age of 66.
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In October 1955 Abram Alikhanov was among a number of leading Soviet scientists who signed the "Letter of 300" criticizing Trofim Lysenko and Lysenkoism and supporting genetics.
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In 1956 Abram Alikhanov came under pressure when several members of the ITEP staff gave pro-democracy speeches at the institute's Communist Party organization.
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The Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics, which Abram Alikhanov led from its inception in 1945 until 1968, was named after him in 2004.
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An hour long documentary film on Abram Alikhanov was produced by the Public TV of Armenia in 2019.