1. Artem Alikhanian was a Soviet physicist of Armenian origin, one of the founders and first director of the Yerevan Physics Institute, a correspondent member of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union, academic of the Armenian National Academy of Sciences.
Artem Alikhanian is known as the "father of Armenian physics".
Artem Alikhanian was born in Elizavetpol, Russian Empire, to an Armenian family of a railway engineer and homemaker.
Artem Alikhanian worked as a waiter and a newspaper seller.
For observation of positrons, Alikhanov, his student M Kozodaev and Alikhanian used an original combination of a magnetic spectrometer and two contiguous Geiger-Muller counters making coincidence counts.
In 1948, A Alikhanov and A Alikhanian again were awarded the Stalin Prize for the investigation of cosmic rays.
In 1965, Harvard University invited Artem Alikhanian to give the Loeb and Lee lectures in Physics.
Artem Alikhanian became the first Loeb professor of Harvard University from Europe.
Artem Alikhanian was a Doctor of physical-mathematical sciences, Professor of Yerevan State University, head of the physical laboratory in the Lebedev Institute, founder and scientific supervisor of the Nuclear Physics chair in the Moscow Engineering Physics Institute, founder of the high-altitude Aragats and Nor-Amberd research stations.
Artem Alikhanian's works are dedicated to nuclear physics, cosmic rays and elementary particle physics, accelerator physics and technology.
Artem Alikhanian led the construction of 6 GeV Armenian electron synchrotron.
Artem Alikhanian was known as a kind and highly inventive personality, his "great erudition captivated everyone".
Artem Alikhanian organized visits of Arkady Raikin, Andrei Sakharov and Yelena Bonner to Armenia, hosted Joseph Brodsky at his house in Yerevan.
Artem Alikhanian resigned from his position at YerPhI in 1973 and left Yerevan, after conflicts with very high level Soviet statesmen.