Hambardzumyan was the President of the International Astronomical Union from 1961 till 1964.

In fact Hambardzumyan personifies the state policy of promotion of Science in the Soviet Republic of Armenia that included considerable capital investments and repatriation of scientists.

Hambardzumyan was awarded two Stalin Prizes ( 1946, 1950 ), the Russian Federation State Award and M. V. Lomonosov ( 1971 ) Gold Medal of Academy of Science of the USSR.

Hambardzumyan was elected as an honoree or international member of the Academies of Science of Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Democratic Republic of Germany, Georgia, Denmark, Italy, Netherland, the USA, France, Sweden, New York Academy of Science, German Academy of Science (“ Leopoldina ”) in Halle ( DRG ), Royal Astronomical Societies of England and Canada, American Astronomical Society, Philosophical Society of Cambridge, as an honoree doctor the Universities of Liege, Australian National, La-Plata Observatory, Paris and Copernicus in Torin.

Hambardzumyan was awarded Gold Medals of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific ( 1959 ) and British Royal Astronomical Societies ( 1960 ), Gold Medal of Slovak Academy of Science ( 1970 ), Prix Jules Janssen of the French Astronomical Society ( 1956 ), Helmgolz Medal of German Academy of Science in Berlin ( 1971 ), Cotenius Medal of the German Academy of Sciece (“ Leopoldina ”) in Halle ( DRG ) ( 1974 ), Medal of the Czechoslovak Academy of Science ( 1984 ).

Congratulating Hambardzumyan on his 80th birthday, Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar who won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1983, wrote, " The only other astronomer of this century who compares with Academician Hambardzumyan in his consistency and devotion to astronomy is Professor Jan Oort ; but they would appear to be dissimilar in every other way.

In 1946 for the creation of the theory of lights diffusion in turbid media Hambardzumyan was awarded his first Stalins Prize.

Hambardzumyan Prize is being awarded by the President of Republic of Armenia.

Hambardzumyan Prize are being presented by the special Committee attached to the Presidium of NAS RA, the staff of which is being established by the Government of RA by the presentation of the Presidium of NAS RA.

Hambardzumyan Prize includes cash award, diploma of V. A.

Hambardzumyan Prize winner, honorable mark ( medal ) and its corresponding certificate.

Hambardzumyan Prize is being awarded to scientists of any country of the world for unique scientific works in the fields of astrophysics, as well as the fields of physics and mathematics adjacent to the scientific activity connected with V. A.

Hambardzumyan Prize, the mentioned Prize is not being awarded in the given year.

This is the difficulty with relativistic invariance ( invariance with respect to Lorentz transformations ) and Heisenberg could not overcome it ; a remarkable way of overcoming it has been found by Hambardzumyan and the young Cambridge mathematician Ursell.

The most notable female vocalists in the Armenian folk genre have been Araksia Gyulzadyan, Ophelia Hambardzumyan, Varduhi Khachatrian, Valya Samvelyan, Rima Saribekyan, Susanna Safarian, Manik Grigoryan, and Flora Martirosian.

Details for the calculation are given in Hambardzumyan ’ s paper, and they suggest that even in 1936 computed tomography might have been able to make significant contributions to, say, the diagnosis of tumors in the head ....

... it seems to me quite possible that Hambardzumyan ’ s numerical methods might have made significant contributions to that part of medicine had they been applied in 1936 ....”

In 1932 “ Monthly Notices ” of the Royal Astronomical Society published a paper by V. A. Hambardzumyan “ On the radiative equilibrium of a planetary nebula ” nowadays considered to be the cornerstone of the modern theory of the gas nebulae.

In a series of research articles by Hambardzumyan that topic was developed further.

Elaborate methods developed by Hambardzumyan were applied in the research of gas shells of the non-stationary stars.

In 1936 Hambardzumyan gives an elegant solution of mathematical problem posed by the famous British scientist Arthur Eddington: determination of the distribution of the stars spatial speeds basing on the distribution of their radial speeds.

The research conducted by Hambardzumyan in the stellar systems statistics and dynamics laid the foundations of the statistical mechanics of the stellar systems.

In 1935-1937 Hambardzumyan in a polemics with a celebrated British scientist James Jeans as regards the age of our stellar system – the Galaxy, proved that our Galaxy is at least by 1000 times younger than the estimate given by Jeans and accepted by the scientific community.

Hambardzumyan puts forward an entirely new concept, that the light absorption in the Galaxy is caused by the presence of numerous dust nebulae or “ absorbing clouds ” in the inter-stellar space.

The invariance principle formulated by Hambardzumyan and various modifications of this principle presently are being widely used to solve extremely complicated problems in astrophysics, mathematical and theoretical physics, electronics, geophysics, atmospheric physics, and other areas of science.

Protostar, an early stage of star formation, postulated for the first time by Viktor Ambartsumian | V. Hambardzumyan

Thus, an article by the 20-year-old Hambardzumyan opened up a whole area of research on inverse problems and became the foundation of an entire discipline.

Hambardzumyan immensely contributed into science popularization by publishing booklets and articles on different problems of astrophysics.

* 1908 – Viktor Hambardzumyan, Soviet-Armenian scientist ( d. 1996 )

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* August 12 – Viktor Hambardzumyan, Soviet Armenian scientist ( b. 1908 )

Today's Armenian traditional songs can be associated with performers such as Rouben Matevosian, Ophelia Hambardzumyan, Varduhi Khachatrian, and Papin Poghosian.

Viktor Hambardzumyan (, ) ( – August 12, 1996 ) was a Soviet Armenian scientist, and one of the founders of theoretical astrophysics.

Hambardzumyan was the founder of Byurakan Observatory.

Hambardzumyan was born to an Armenian family in Tbilisi in 1908.

His father was the philologist and writer Hamazasp Asaturovich Hambardzumyan, the translator of Homer ’ s Iliad into Armenian.

Hambardzumyan continued his postgraduate studies at Pulkovo Observatory under the guidance of professor Aristarkh Belopolsky in 1928 – 1931.

After three years of affiliation at Leningrad University in 1934 Hambardzumyan founded and headed the first astrophysics chair.

In 1939 – 1941 Hambardzumyan was the director of the Leningrad University Observatory.

The scientific laboratories of the University were evacuated in 1941 to remote Elabuga ( Tatarstan ) where Hambardzumyan spent four years directing the work of the refugee laboratories.

Iosif Orbeli was appointed as the president and Hambardzumyan as the vice president of Armenian SSR Academy.

In 1947 Hambardzumyan was elected as the president of the Armenian SSR Academy and since then he was invariably re-elected to the position till 1993.

Hambardzumyan became its first Director and directed the Observatory till 1988.

Hambardzumyan died in August 1996 in Byurakan and is buried next to the Grand Telescope Tower.