Victor Ambartsumian, Georgian-Armenian astrophysicist, astronomer, and academic (died 1996)

Viktor Ambartsumian

Soviet Armenian astrophysicist (1908–1996)

Viktor Amazaspovich Ambartsumian was a Soviet and Armenian astrophysicist and science administrator. One of the 20th century's leading astronomers, he is widely regarded as the founder of theoretical astrophysics in the Soviet Union.