Garik Israelian
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| Born | 1963 (age 53–54) Yerevan, Armenia |
| Nationality | Armenian |
| Fields | Physics, Astronomy, Spectroscopy |
| Institutions |
Utrecht University Free University of Brussels University of Sydney Geneva University Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias Byurakan Astrophysical Observatory |
| Alma mater |
Yerevan State University Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias |
| Notable awards | Victor Ambartsumian International Prize (2010) The Canary Islands Gold Medal (2014) |
Garik Israelian (Armenian: Գարիկ Իսրայելյան, born 1963) is an astrophysicist who led the team which found the first observational evidence that supernova explosions are responsible for the formation of stellar mass black holes.
Garik Israelian was born in Yerevan, Armenia in 1963. He graduated from Yerevan State University in 1987 with a First Class Honors degree in Physics, and completed his PhD in 1992.
Israelian has since worked as a lecturer/researcher in the Universities of Utrecht (The Netherlands), Brussels (Belgium), and Sydney (Australia). Since 1997 he has been a Principal Investigator for the project "Stellar chemical abundances: clues on the formation of the Galaxy, black holes and planets" at the Institute of Astrophysics, Canary Islands (IAC), and a Professor at the University of La Laguna, Tenerife, Canary Islands (Spain). The IAC operates the largest optical telescope in the world: the 10.4-meter GTC located on the island of La Palma.
Garik Israelian has spoken at 67 international conferences and published more than 250 scientific articles on subjects ranging from the discovery of extrasolar planets to the properties of low mass x-ray binaries with black holes and neutron stars. Israelian’s discoveries were widely covered by BBC, CNN, Russia Today, Euronews, TVE, NBC, RTL etc., and reflected in special publications in dozens of national (Spain) and international newspapers (New York Times, Washington Post, USA Today, Le Monde, Der Spiegel,The Times etc.) and magazines (Nature, Science, Science News, Scientific American, Discovery etc.).
Brian May (the guitarist of the legendary rock band Queen) credits Israelian in his PhD thesis as "... my prime collaborator in resuming this work … more than anyone else responsible for helping me through the final stages of this PhD work".
Israelian has supervised six Doctoral dissertations, and lectured 32 hours post- graduate courses on Stellar Atmospheres and Radiation Transfer at the Universities of Geneva (Switzerland) and Tokyo (Japan). Israelian is a trusted referee of the scientific magazines Nature, Science, Astrophysical Journal, Astronomy and Astrophysics, MNRAS. He collaborated and published articles with, amongst others, Prof. Hans Bethe (Nobel Prize Physicist) and Prof. Cornelis de Jager (former General Secretary of the International Astronomical Union, President of the Committee on Space Research and President of the International Council of Scientific Unions). Israelian is a member of many professional societies and associations (IAU, SAE, AAS, ASP).
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