Viktor Hambardzumyan (18 September [O.S. 5 September] 1908, Tbilisi - August 12, 1996, Byurakan, russified as Viktor Amazaspovich Ambartsumian) was a Soviet Armenian scientist, and one of the founders of theoretical astrophysics. He worked in the field of physics of stars and nebulae, stellar astronomy, dynamics of stellar systems and cosmogony of stars and galaxies, contributed to Mathematical physics. Read more