Gurgen Askaryan
Inventor of the Askaryan effect Gurgen Ashotovich Askaryan was a prominent Soviet – Armenian physicist, famous for his discovery of the self-focusing of light, pioneering studies of light-matter interactions, and the discovery and investigation of the interaction of high-energy particles with condensed matter. Biography Gurgen Askaryan was born in 1928 in Moscow, Russia to Armenian parents. Both parents were doctors: father Ashot Askaryan, was […]
